Economy of Contribution in the Digital Commons
* Article: Counter-Commodification: The Economy of Contribution in the Digital Commons. Andreas Wittel.
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Andreas Wittel:
"I have recently published an article where I try to explain why the difficulties in building the digital commons are not due to the exploitation of free labour (an argument which has has come to dominate the debate). Instead these difficulties are due to the fact that volunteering is hard when everyone is struggling to get by financially. Those areas of the digital commons that grow nicely (software commons, knowledge commons etc) are often produced by paid labour disguised as free labour."