Hilfe als Ware auf digitalen Marktplätzen? Überlegungen zu einer realistischen Utopie zwischen Coopetition und Commons

The digital economy is increasingly including social services, which in principle cannot be economized, because they represent interpersonal interactions. However, they must be initiated, mediated and administered. A platforming of the factual components of professional help leads to commercial gatekeepers and intensifies a semi-economization of the social. The article is following a political economy and searching for a solution in the public interest. In the sense of the Open Data Movement, a solution approach is outlined as a co-opetitive Data-Common.