Dachis Group Social Business Summit 2010 Preview; Doug Rushkoff on The People’s Business

For too long - over six hundred years, to be exact - business has depended on de-socializing people. The invention and forced implementation of central currency was designed to prevent peer-to-peer transactions, and refocus commerce on paying up to a treasury rather than paying out to people. The invention and legal enforcement of the chartered monopoly (what we now think of as the "corporation"), turned craftspeople and businesspeople into employees.