'Pool & Share' replaces 'Earn, Buy & Own'. If people 'Pool & Share', they guarantee access rights in an autonomous way. They reduce their individual costs, increase the likelihood to meet their needs better, and develop a sense of co-responsibility and social solidarity.
Review of Cho Cho San, Potts Point: sharing is caring with food bloggers! by Insatiableunchies. Licence: CC BY 2.0.
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You can pool knowledge, resources, time, energy, food, tools, ideas or money. 'Pool & Share' works in all realms of commoning. But it is particularly powerful in open networks, where the usefulness of information, ideas, knowledge, code and design grows the more that they are shared and adapted.
However, what matters the most is the '&', because you can only share what you pool, contribute or co-produce. Sharing without pooling in the commons is like shopping without money in capitalism. Wherever people 'Pool & Share' the Decouple Giving & Taking.
# Storify
Picture a picnic with your friends, or a feast at your children's school where everybody brings some typical food along. It is just as tasty, diverse and copious as the contributions. .... IN FACT; I WOULD PREFER JUST TO PICK ONE story instead of tropping a lot of ideas.
# Enabling Context
While formal legal structures are sometimes needed to enable sharing (e.g., co-operative bylaws, FLOSS licenses, Creative Commons licenses), a prior, indispensable condition is an ethic and social practices of sharing. See: Cultivating Shared Purpose & Values When the sharing is carefully parsed and calculated, we call this "mutualization," a specific form of sharing.
# Examples
La Minga de Curgos, Public Domain source
- countless common practices in everyday life where people Decouple Giving & Taking
- co-operatives, mingas
- traditional subsistence commons
- open source software communities such as GNU/Linux, Apache, Perl and Libre Office, wikis, Federated Wiki, open access journals, and other collaborative platforms that can readily share their output without jeopardizing their own survival.
- crowdsourcing and crowdfunding
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"This is the norm in a capitalist economy, of course, but it is not a law of nature. They are other practical ways to generate and distribute creative works and knowledge."