A look at work as it has been perceived down the ages-and a look at its mirror image. Idleness, once considered one of the deadly sins, now implies the right to slow down, go at your own pace, have time to stop and stare.

Craig Anderson is an editor at Wired News and makes available his audio book as a new business model. The time of the melting of the dollar and the collapse of the private economy or profit worship is also the time of free. The great unraveling provokes the great refusal (cf. Paul Krugman). Tech is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, not Scarcity FREE: THE FUTURE OF A RADICAL PRICE
Download the audio book (285 MB zip) http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer Prologue
Chapter 1: The Gift of Free
Chapter 2: Free 101
Chapter 3: The History of Free
Chapter 4: The Psychology of Free
Chapter 5: Too Cheap to Matter
Chapter 6: Information Waits to be Free
Chapter 7: Competing with Free RELATED LINK:
www.onthecommons.org

The final document released June 22, 2009 emphasizes the lines of action: make the stimulus work for all, contain the effects of the crisis and improve future global resilence, improved regulation and monitoring and reform of the international financial and economic system and architecture.

In 1934 there was a war on American workers and a general strike. Out of that struggle and Bloody Thursday, Harry Bridges and the ILWU were only armed with the right to protest and their convictions.. We stand on the shoulders of giants. The martyrs died a physical death so we would not die a psychological death. Here's a 59 minute video on the 75th Commemoration of the SF general strike:

Obama's plan won't rein in casino capitalism; finance must be democratized. The Fed has had enormous regulatory power but refused to use that power. In a PBS Lehrer broadcast, Alan Greenspan explained the Federal Reserve is independent and above the president! Glass-Steagal separated commercial and speculative banking. Democrats and Republicans dismantled the system over 30 years at the banks' request. Public credit rating agencies are vital. Private rating agencies encouraged speculation and knew they'd get more business if they gave all As. Do we want to reestablish a system that didn't work? Economist Robert Polin is interviewed in this RealNews report from June 24, 2009.

"The Federal Reserve is buying securities it printed itself. The supply of money has increased 45 percent in the last 3 years. The dollar has already lost 40% of its value against the euro since 2000. The means used to fight the economic crisis paved the way for the currency crisis.."

Technological solutions like cap-and-trade do not change our ecological footprint, climate change or the fraud of banks and big business. The edifice must be debated and changed: the role of govt, the purpose of the economy, illusions about market and democracy, public and profit and stakeholders and shareholders.

"Many Danes believe that the incredible social-support system provided to citizens is a direct offshoot of the country’s deep roots in the church named after Reformation leader Martin Luther. Lutheranism, at its best, is a faith that emphasizes helping the needy, supporting personal equality and advancing individual liberty. In other words, even “secular” Danes believe they are actualizing the ethics and values of Christianity…"