social inequities in a self-organizing world

Bui Petersen bui.petersen at gmail.com
Fri May 29 09:00:32 PDT 2009


Hi everyone,

I have been absent for a while due to bathroom renovations and an 
overload of work and I didn't get around to thank everyone who provided 
feedback to my first Open Space. Thank you everyone.

I did manage to find time to read Wave Rider. Thanks you, Harrison, for 
a very good book. Not surprisingly, I agreed with most of it. I am 
curious though how you would respond to the following consideration.

Many people will agree that we live in a self-organizing world and even 
(for some reluctantly) that self-organization is the most "efficient" 
way of organization. At the same time they will say that this is also 
the basis of capitalism with all it's problems: social inequities, 
uncontrolled financial markets and the destruction of the environments. 
They will say that this shows why you can't remove all controls and why 
OST has the potential of just reinforcing power imbalances.

I like having discussions  but in this case, my argumentation could 
improve. Any thoughts, anyone?

Bui

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