There was a time in the Western civilization when property rights were not clearly defined, when peasants worked on fields together and animals were kept in common feeding areas and the community harvested the yields together. My question is, could it be that we are on the path to this structure again?
Information increasingly is the value added product of importance, but information is free and the more it is being shared, the more valuable it becomes. You can't define property rights for information. What you can do as a firm is to hire individuals of different specialization and you can pay them according to their perceived usefulness, but in the end they are free to leave and take their knowledge with them. A free association of creative workers who cannot be bound to anything.
I call this model individualistic, because different from the peasant and herder time, the knowledge workers of today have different specialization and creativity. Yet, it is socialism in the sense that the organization they all work together for is nothing but a free-flowing structure around free artists and scientist. Managers and CEOs are nothing but 'people-smiths' whose job it is to make our knowledge workers feel welcome, connected and happy
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