The Carr-Benkler wager was a bet made way back in 2006 between Nicholas Carr, an internet critic and 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist who coined the disparaging (but accurate) term “digital sharecropping” to describe Facebook’s exploitative business model, and Yochai Benkler, an internet champion and scholar who coined the more uplifting term “commons-based peer production” to describe the non-hierarchical model of online collaboration on such websites as Wikipedia. In brief, Professor Benkler bet that the most influential sites on the world wide web would be primarily “peer-production” systems (i.e. the content on such websites would be produced mostly by unpaid volunteers), while Carr bet that such sites would be mostly “price-incentivized” systems (i.e. the content would be produced mostly by paid employees or independent contractors). So, who won the bet?