Platform Co-op Community Hangout: Ela Kagel on Emerging Platform Co-ops in Berlin (November 7, 2018):

Ela Kagel joined us for our first Community Hangout to talk about Technology, Money, and Society. Along with giving us an update on her work with Rchain (https://www.rchain.coop), she led a fantastic conversation with our community members.

Ela is a co-founder of SUPERMARKT (https://supermarkt-berlin.net/en/), a coworking space & research studio with a focus on digital culture, social innovation and collaborative economy in Berlin.

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Our par­a­digm for val­ue is pro­duc­tion. But if you think about it, most work is not pro­duc­tive. Most work is actu­al­ly about main­tain­ing things, it’s about care. Whenever I talk to a Marxist the­o­rist, and they try to explain val­ue, which is…what they always like to do, they always take the exam­ple of a teacup. They’ll say like…usually they’re sit­ting there with a glass, a bot­tle, a cup. They say, ​“Well, look at this bot­tle. You know, it takes a cer­tain amount of socially-necessary labor time to pro­duce this. Say it takes you know, this much time, this much resources.” They’re always talk­ing about pro­duc­tion of stuff.

But a teacup or a bot­tle, well you know, you pro­duce a cup once. You wash it like ten thou­sand times. Most work isn’t actu­al­ly about pro­duc­ing new things, it’s about main­tain­ing things.

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As the socio-economic and political crisis subsided, some scholars assumed that worker-recuperated enterprises would disappear, but this did not happen. The figure below shows that although the number of new worker-recuperated factories peaked in 2002, takeovers continued even as the economy improved and unemployment rates declined. Workers had a new socially-recognized tool, which they continued to deploy in new contexts. The expansion was also favored by unemployment rates that, although declining, remained significant (around 7% over the past few years) and political conditions (at least at a federal level) that were not adverse to these processes.

It values pro-bono, care, and paid work with complementary metrics and dispenses rewards accordingly. The purpose is to extract people from the capitalist marketplace so they can use their unique talents to do fulfilling, socially and environmentally meaningful work. The document prototypes a governance model fit for digital labor as applied to an existing organization: the P2P translation collective Guerrilla Translation which is, in turn, embedded into a larger umbrella organization called the Guerrilla Media Collective. Guerrilla Translation serves as the practical example to illustrate the model. The Guerrilla Media Collective is a pilot project for Distributed Cooperative Organizations or DisCOs.

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