Under the model, would participatory economics allow for small-time marketing?
If you mean would there be smaller production units and larger ones, sure… There is no marketing in the sense it exists now, however. That is, no sales aimed at volume/profits rather than fulfillment/use. No one has any interest whatever in having someone consume something they produce other than if the consumer benefits thereby. There are a lot of things that could never be bargained or planned for on a yearly basis. Wouldn’t some kind of market system work to distribute those items? Why? If you mean one can’t know in advance know that one will want a product that only arrives as an option six months later – say a book not yet published, for example – sure. But you can know that last year you got x books and your prediction, flexible and updateable as the year proceeds, is that this year you will want y more or less than last. And similarly for other choices; sometimes precise, sometimes general. Individuals don’t know the clothes they will want (new designs, etc.) but can say, pret
