{"id":64,"date":"2006-06-29T20:56:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T03:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-06-29T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T03:56:18","slug":"people-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/64\/people-power\/","title":{"rendered":"People power&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phenomenon Chris Anderson writes about in <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.07\/people.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article from Wired Magazine<\/a> is a secondary consequence of outrageous abundance. In a subsistence culture, the work of the mind is precious and literally unsupportable. We are by now so rich that millions of people can create intellectual resources that they give away, in turn to be remarketed by others. This may or may not work in the long run for companies tapping into and amplifying open-source-like works of the mind. Consider that aggregator software levels the playing field for small players. The interesting thing is what it will do to companies whose entire business model is based on scarcity and hoarding. If almost-as-good is free or nearly free, what is the market value of slightly-better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phenomenon Chris Anderson writes about in this article from Wired Magazine is a secondary consequence of outrageous abundance. In a subsistence culture, the work of the mind is precious and literally unsupportable. We are by now so rich that millions of people can create intellectual resources that they give away, in turn to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2800,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2800\/biz-20-super-real-estate-companies\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"Biz 2.0: Super Real Estate Companies","author":"Mike Farmer","date":"March 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"When I first started in real estate my goal was to\u00a0own a big operation after getting my broker's license. 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