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Monday, May 7, 2007
10:10 AM
In Internet stuff, for example, only a few open-source developers who got enough money on the first round are able to work for free to move technology ahead. Anyone who has to work for money is doomed to repeating old hack cycles that go nowhere. The "conservative" approach at work. Bah.
We can envision a world where all human knowledge is available free at the touch of a button. In fact, that's basically what we have, but there are still a bunch of uncreative idiots trying to sell it to you.
We can envision a world in which little cart robots grow food and give it away. Why don't we build that? At some point, just as with intellectual property, it becomes less of a hassle just to give stuff away.
The mistake of Marx, Lenin etc. was to envision a utopia and then think you could get there by force. Maybe someone had a nice idea once, but it all goes wrong if you don't respect the spirit of truth.
Capitalism was the only way to develop the technologies to uplift the world. But capitalism sees a need to keep a chokehold on oil, for example, to keep its inequities afloat, instead of releasing the world to fusion. (Micro-scale fusion is a really good idea, but it still wouldn't be quite "cold," would it. It's said the shadow government is at least 70% ahead of the public sector as we approach the 2012 transistor squeeze.) Capitalism has an incentive to hold people back as much as it does to develop new technologies. It has a stronger incentive to hold back technologies that would destroy its system of incentives.
The thing is, the transition has to be voluntary. It can never be achieved by force. "Sell all you have and give the money to the poor."
You'd be surprised what the poor can do with it. There are always a lot of smart poor people out there, people who want to improve themselves and contribute to the lives of others.
b.s. jobs vs. real jobs
The thing that gets to smart people who are experienced with all these computer fango-dango doo-dads is, they are supposed to save work, but instead, everyone new to them uses them to create more work. Then all of work becomes mind games and personality wars. It's a big lie and I'm tired of it.In Internet stuff, for example, only a few open-source developers who got enough money on the first round are able to work for free to move technology ahead. Anyone who has to work for money is doomed to repeating old hack cycles that go nowhere. The "conservative" approach at work. Bah.
We can envision a world where all human knowledge is available free at the touch of a button. In fact, that's basically what we have, but there are still a bunch of uncreative idiots trying to sell it to you.
We can envision a world in which little cart robots grow food and give it away. Why don't we build that? At some point, just as with intellectual property, it becomes less of a hassle just to give stuff away.
The mistake of Marx, Lenin etc. was to envision a utopia and then think you could get there by force. Maybe someone had a nice idea once, but it all goes wrong if you don't respect the spirit of truth.
Capitalism was the only way to develop the technologies to uplift the world. But capitalism sees a need to keep a chokehold on oil, for example, to keep its inequities afloat, instead of releasing the world to fusion. (Micro-scale fusion is a really good idea, but it still wouldn't be quite "cold," would it. It's said the shadow government is at least 70% ahead of the public sector as we approach the 2012 transistor squeeze.) Capitalism has an incentive to hold people back as much as it does to develop new technologies. It has a stronger incentive to hold back technologies that would destroy its system of incentives.
The thing is, the transition has to be voluntary. It can never be achieved by force. "Sell all you have and give the money to the poor."
You'd be surprised what the poor can do with it. There are always a lot of smart poor people out there, people who want to improve themselves and contribute to the lives of others.
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