Sublime

And so around the world power is shifting from the lumbering, closed, centralized entities to the nimble, adaptive, distributed Peers Inc framework. This is how Peers Inc organizations started rewiring capitalism.

There is one structure that underlies all these—excess capacity + a platform for participation + diverse peers—and it is fundamentally changing the way we work, build businesses, and shape economies. I call it Peers Inc.

Platforms take the individuality of peers and, through organizing and resourcing, ultimately turn it into society’s greatest asset. With platforms, diversity rocks.

On Dan’s graph, there is an optimal point: the exact right amount of organizing control (regulation, platform structure) where individual and collective interests are aligned. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. People choose to conform (participate) for their own sake or at least for the benefit of the whole. But past this point, indiv

A curious reality of the Peers Inc model and the collaborative economy is that they are not really collaborative at all. These public goods and this currency creation do not require very much actual collaboration (laboring together) or co-operation (operating together).

Denmark’s pro-business climate stems in large part due to its long-standing policy of “Flexicurity,”

the Goldilocks principle: try, iterate, learn, adapt.