[VBbuilders] Google Voice discovered allowing pure VoIP calls???

[Michel Bauwens]

there are different kinds of coops, and Patrick's vision is 'consumers'
only, which in a way makes the producers in the coop 'owned' by the
consumers ... I find this problematic and prefer multiple stakeholder models

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:07 AM, <suresh2323 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This, in the purest sense, is what a co-op aims to be, is it not?
>
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> Subject: Re: Google Voice discovered allowing pure VoIP calls???
>
> Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > profit maximising company legally obliged to favour its shareholders
>
> Hmm...
>
> What if we built a crowd-funded corporation where the only
> shareholders were the very consumers of that product?
>
> Their ROI for taking risk would be to avoid paying profit - since the
> owner of an Apple tree does not *buy* the Apples from himself, but
> owns those Objectives already, as a side-effect of his owning the
> Sources.
>
> There would no longer be "Vendor/Customer" relations to worry about
> since the Vendor and the Customer would be one and the same!
>
> I wonder what disadvantages such an alignment might cause...
>



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