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 		- [[go]] [[wp]]
 	- [[pull]] [[elinor ostrom]] [[knowledge commons]]
 	- [[neil]]
-  	- > beyond [[market]] and [[state]]
-		- I sometimes think of them as [[embedding]] and thus potentially [[regulating]] markets.
 		- recommended [[free, fair and alive]], it's great.
+  	- > beyond [[market]] and [[state]]
+			- I sometimes think of them as [[embedding]] and thus potentially [[regulating]] markets.
+		- [[social organisms]]
+		- about [[sharing]] plus creating systems that produce [[shareable things]]
 	- this [[agora]] is a [[digital commons]].
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+# shareable things
+
+- anything you can [[copy freely]], you can [[share]]
+  - everything [[digital]] comes into the world a priori shareable, then is opportunistically encumbered
+    - sharing while preventing copying is inherently more work (computational, psychologic) than sharing freely
+