Ist Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt? - Stimmt es, dass ...? | ARTE

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123890-004-A/ist-kollektiveigentum-zum-scheitern-verurteilt/

"Der verbreitete Gedanke, dass Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt ist, hat sich fest in den Köpfen der Menschen verankert. Aber stimmt das überhaupt?"

#Eigentum vs #Commons / #Gemeingüter / #Allmende & #TragikDerAllmende / #TragedyOfTheCommons vs #GoverningTheCommons nach
#ElinorOstrom (erste Frau die 2009 den Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften erhielt)

Ist Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt? - Stimmt es, dass ...? - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Der verbreitete Gedanke, dass Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt ist, hat sich fest in den Köpfen der Menschen verankert. Aber stimmt das überhaupt? Wir begeben uns auf die Spuren der Gemeingüter: vom europäischen Mittelalter bis heute, zu den Maya in Mittelamerika und hinein in eine hochpolitische akademische Debatte.

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@hrheingold this is incredibly helpful. Thanks for sharing. I now can't stop thinking about how this can apply to childcare.

#GoverningTheCommons
#childcare
#ChildCareCrises

Social.Coop - Reading Group

Purpose: To facilitate social.coop members reading and discussing texts of varying genres that communicate a positive or cooperative vision of society, offer practical solutions for cooperative practitioners and organizers, and/or examine the successes and failures of cooperative movements of the past and present. Infrastructure: The reading group will be organized and governed on a sub-group of the social.coop Loomio project, and will be open to all interested social.coop members. Members will be encouraged to post a short statement of interest and any questions they might have to the sub-group upon joining. Reading Selection Process: - All members may add as many books as they want whose subjects align with the group’s purpose to a shared spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit?usp=sharing). Entries include name, author, pub date, pages, a description lifted from the publisher’s website or similar source, and the submitter's name. - At the conclusion of each meeting, a random number generator is used to select 8 books from the list. - Club members rank-choice vote the 8 options with the default 6 day voting period. The winner is the text to be read for the meeting after the subsequent one, thus allowing for approximately two months lead time for reading. Meetings and Discussions: - The person who suggested the winning text agrees to be the "host" for a given month. Don't suggest texts if you're not prepared to host. :-) - Hosting means promoting asynchronous and synchronous conversation about the text, as well as ensuring that the vote for the next text happens. - Asynchronous conversations may include posts on social.coop and in the Loomio subgroup. - Synchronous conversations may include the use of the social.coop chat-room, as well as scheduled calls. - Scheduling: Create a schedule poll with between four and eight possible times the host is available for the call to take approximately a month after the next scheduled call. - Call Logistics: The host is responsible for choosing the platform on which the call is to take place, and disseminating instructions for accessing the call platform via an RSVP “Check Poll” in the Loomio subgroup. - The reading group encourages experimentation with a range of meeting and discussion formats that work for the participating members.

@eloquence good review! Having just read Ostrom's #GoverningTheCommons I decided to pass on this #readinggroup - 120pp and leaning on Ostrom and Alinsky for the title draw, I could hope for a thorough tight application of Ostrom's participatory multi-layered feedback principles to modern activism dilemmas, but I expected something perhaps even less coherent than your review hints. Look forward to others thoughts!

Sub-themes in #GoverningTheCommons

* Institutional rules are a dynamic historical process, involving agents at the individual, local, regional, and state levels.
* Common resource pools (partially-closed access shared ecological goods) do not necessarily have a fixed "optimal" result of consumption, other than "success" in sustained existence.
* Models that assume privitization or centralization are the only choices fail to explain the real world, and constrain policy in ways likely to fail.

3 key contributions of #GoverningTheCommons to my mind:

1) Support for bottom-up organizing principles ala subsidiarity, of nested participatory institutions at each level where local knowledge exists to be gathered.

2) Specific value of participatory monitoring and enforcement in producing trust (that one is not a "sucker") in excess of costs of guards or fines.

3) Finite ecological resources require restraint and mgmt to sustain benefits, and more than we believe are finite & ecological.

"To make a model tractable, theorists must make simplifying assumptions. Many of these assumptions are equivalent to setting a parameter (e.g., the amount of information available to participants...) equal to a constant (e.g., complete information...). Because the resulting model appears to be relatively simple, with only a few “moving parts,” it may be considered by some to be general, rather than the special model that it is."

#GoverningTheCommons

"I mean institutions that enable individuals to achieve productive outcomes in situations where temptations to free-ride and shirk are ever present. A competitive market – the epitome of private institutions – is itself a public good. Once a competitive market is provided, individuals can enter and exit freely whether or not they contribute to the cost of providing and maintaining the market. No market can exist for long without underlying public institutions to support it." #GoverningTheCommons
Ok, starting to read Ostrom's #GoverningTheCommons here, having just finished Naomi Klein's rehash of the need for an intersectional alliance to paint a common vision for non-neoliberal sustainable institutions. Struck by Ostrom's "Common Pool Resources" applicability to so much of what we currently parcel out for individually maximized/optimized consumption.
But probably after Ostrom's #GoverningTheCommons that you all put on the list and then Nicky Case bumped up with the very end of this talk http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/aug/07/seeing-whole-systems/
Nicky Case: Seeing Whole Systems - The Long Now