meet.coop is a project in a radically altered economy. Here we outline the economy.
- Contribution economy - Internally, operating as a use-value economy rather than an economy of exchange value, with dynamics grounded in diverse contributions in the commons. As distinct from a regime of property and ownership (shares, assets) as in traditional coops, or of investment and accumulation (profits, returns) as in capitalist markets. - Sustainable tech infrastructure and platform service - paying a fair wage to Operational members, recognising their need for secure livelihood. - Altered social relations - Livelihood work and gift work, operational contributions and care-work contributions, surviving in wage-work economy and building in the commons. - Doughnut economy Environmental ceiling, **sustainable** - Digital economy - issues around gift work, livelihood work and free-libre ppen source software (FLOSS) - Digital economy - Operations that secure privacy of members’ data. GDPR or better (no commercial extraction of metadata, no disclosure of data). Active non-disclosure protection for users who are resident in States with notably aggressive surveillance regimes (USA, ¿India?, ¿China? etc). - Committing surplus income (when this arises) to contribute in-kind and in work, in the (digital and cultural) commons. Commoning - Mobilising the commoons - helping distributed communities of organisers in the coop-commons economy and civil society, to organise fluently and capably in and across regions: formación, beyond fragments(.