{"id":228,"date":"2014-09-17T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2014-09-17T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:14:47","slug":"zero-marginal-cost-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/zero-marginal-cost-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Marginal Cost Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Zero-Marginal-Cost-Society-Collaborative\/dp\/1137278463\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1410939127&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=zero+marginal+cost+society\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"240\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/zero\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Zero-1.jpg?fit=225%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,346\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Zero\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Zero-1.jpg?fit=225%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Zero-195x300.jpg?resize=195%2C300\" alt=\"Zero\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Jeremy Rifkin has a style of writing that annoys a lot of people, if you read the comments online. \u00a0I found the Zero Marginal Cost Society to be a valuable contribution to the debate that is taking place about capitalism. \u00a0Logically, capitalism will always find the lowest cost option, but with open source that cost should be approaching zero. \u00a0So what happens if everything takes the lowest possible cost? \u00a0What does society look like? \u00a0How does it function?<\/p>\n<p>This is not a howto guide that takes us to the economics of &#8220;Star Trek The Next Generation&#8221; but it helps move the debate on, and should be required reading for anyone involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/ouishare.net\">the sharing economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Rifkin has a style of writing that annoys a lot of people, if you read the comments online. \u00a0I found the Zero Marginal Cost Society to be a valuable contribution to the debate that is taking place about capitalism. \u00a0Logically, capitalism will always find the lowest cost option, but with open source that cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Zero Marginal Cost Society  http:\/\/wp.me\/p1wIKv-3G","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1wIKv-3G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}