Yet, even as the White House becomes more efficient and the website costs less to build and operate, this is one more step towards a post-scarcity future that the White House is not otherwise directly engaging, like by promoting a "basic income" for all regardless of whether someone "works": "Why limited demand means joblessness" http://www.beyondajoblessrecovery.org/2009/10/03/why-limited-demand-means-joblessness/ [beyondajob...covery.org] "Summary: Mainstream economics assumes demand for almost anything is infinite. Thus, the theory
First off, most leaders of the left wing imagine a future where scarcity is the norm, largely because they see the consumption of natural resources by the West as unethical in a larger world view. In their eyes, Americans already have "too much" and therefor should have to make due with less. This faux-conservatism, coupled with the right wing's stupid devotion to "free trade", is the underlying cause of this current economic crisis. It is that people want more stuff, resources are capped by environmenta
Except you completely ignore externalities, systemic risks, and equity, which is what got us in various messes already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality [wikipedia.org]
Consider the "True cost" of oil from various perspectives: http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/oil-gas-crude/461 [energyandcapital.com] """ Milton Copulus, the head of the National Defense Council Foundation, has a different view. And as the former principal energy analyst for the Heritage Foundation, a 12-year member of the National Petroleum Council, a Re
Really? I mean, I'm not saying you are wrong, but I am saying you've just made a direct statement of fact with no justification whatsoever. It's not even an argument.
but I am saying you've just made a direct statement of fact with no justification whatsoever
Yes and no. I think your out would be that if you could address your concerns of concentrations of wealth and externalities without some of federal assumption of ownership, its pretty hard to avoid socialism.
The thing is, that, if you have a government to keep wealth from getting concentrated, it's wealth will get concentrated. If you make the government the sole arbiter of some bit of land or sky, then, it will be
"If we all had our one acre of land, even if one of us screwed it up, humanity could continue. But if the King owned all the land, then, the King could screw up all the land, and frequently, will."
And if one of those people on their one acre of land makes a bioengineered plague, then everyone dies? Or, when the nuclear power plant next door melts down, we permanently evacuate Manhattan?
"On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school."
I should have caught that as a problem too. Someday, public schools may be much more like public libraries open to anyone to use than day prisons for children of working parents, but until then, consider:
"In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness " by Chris Mercogliano, who spent thirty-five years teaching at the Albany Free School http://www.chrismercogliano.com/childhood.htm [chrismercogliano.com]
One step to a post-scarcity future, but just one (Score:1, Troll)
Yet, even as the White House becomes more efficient and the website costs less to build and operate, this is one more step towards a post-scarcity future that the White House is not otherwise directly engaging, like by promoting a "basic income" for all regardless of whether someone "works":
"Why limited demand means joblessness"
http://www.beyondajoblessrecovery.org/2009/10/03/why-limited-demand-means-joblessness/ [beyondajob...covery.org]
"Summary: Mainstream economics assumes demand for almost anything is infinite. Thus, the theory
That's totally wrong. (Score:3, Insightful)
First off, most leaders of the left wing imagine a future where scarcity is the norm, largely because they see the consumption of natural resources by the West as unethical in a larger world view. In their eyes, Americans already have "too much" and therefor should have to make due with less. This faux-conservatism, coupled with the right wing's stupid devotion to "free trade", is the underlying cause of this current economic crisis. It is that people want more stuff, resources are capped by environmenta
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Except you completely ignore externalities, systemic risks, and equity, which is what got us in various messes already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality [wikipedia.org]
Consider the "True cost" of oil from various perspectives:
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/oil-gas-crude/461 [energyandcapital.com]
"""
Milton Copulus, the head of the National Defense Council Foundation, has a different view. And as the former principal energy analyst for the Heritage Foundation, a 12-year member of the National Petroleum Council, a Re
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Externalities, Concentrations of Wealth, etc... is a made up word excuse for socialism.
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Really? I mean, I'm not saying you are wrong, but I am saying you've just made a direct statement of fact with no justification whatsoever. It's not even an argument.
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
but I am saying you've just made a direct statement of fact with no justification whatsoever
Yes and no. I think your out would be that if you could address your concerns of concentrations of wealth and externalities without some of federal assumption of ownership, its pretty hard to avoid socialism.
The thing is, that, if you have a government to keep wealth from getting concentrated, it's wealth will get concentrated. If you make the government the sole arbiter of some bit of land or sky, then, it will be
Re: (Score:5, Insightful)
"If we all had our one acre of land, even if one of us screwed it up, humanity could continue. But if the King owned all the land, then, the King could screw up all the land, and frequently, will."
And if one of those people on their one acre of land makes a bioengineered plague, then everyone dies? Or, when the nuclear power plant next door melts down, we permanently evacuate Manhattan?
Here is something to consider, by Manuel de Landa:
http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm [t0.or.at]
"Indeed, one must resist
Re:That's totally wrong. (Score:3, Informative)
"On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school."
I should have caught that as a problem too. Someday, public schools may be much more like public libraries open to anyone to use than day prisons for children of working parents, but until then, consider:
"Links about alternative peer-oriented education"
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Education [p2pfoundation.net]
"The Underground History of American Education" by 1991 NYS Teacher of
the Year John Taylor Gatto
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm [johntaylorgatto.com]
"The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher" also by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt [newciv.org]
"State Controlled Consciousness" also by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.the-open-boat.com/Gatto.html [the-open-boat.com]
"The Big Crunch" by David Goodstein, Vice Provost, Caltech
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html [caltech.edu]
"Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt
http://www.disciplined-minds.com/ [disciplined-minds.com]
"What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" by Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm [chomsky.info]
"University Secrets:Your Guide to Surviving a College Education" by Robert D. Honigman
http://web.archive.org/web/20060707100524/www.universitysecrets.com/us.htm [archive.org]
"In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness " by Chris
Mercogliano, who spent thirty-five years teaching at the Albany Free School
http://www.chrismercogliano.com/childhood.htm [chrismercogliano.com]
"Teach Your Own" by John Holt (and other books)
http://www.holtgws.com/ [holtgws.com]
"The Teenage Liberation Handbook" by Grace Llewellyn (and other books)
http://gracellewellyn.com/ [gracellewellyn.com]
"The Emergence of Compulsory Schooling and ... Resistance" By Matt Hern
http://web.archive.org/web/20071014123355/http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20031028151034651 [archive.org]
"Sustainable Education" by Jerry Mintz
http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/article.mpl?articleid=195&newsletterid=1 [greenmoneyjournal.com]
"Federated Learning Communities"
http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-1/learning.html [ericdigests.org]
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ilc/models.html [maricopa.edu]
"The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them: An Introduction to
Life/Work Planning" by Richard N. Bolles (also writes "What Color is Your
Parachute")
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Boxes-Life-How-Them/dp/0913668583 [amazon.com]
General related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/indextrue.html [historyisaweapon.com]
Mine:
"Post-Scarcity Princeton, or, Reading between the lines of PAW for
prospective Princeton students, or, the Health Risks of Heart Disease "
http://www.pdfernhout.net/reading-between-the-lines.html [pdfernhout.net]
"Towards a Post-Scarcity New York State of Mind (through homeschooling)"
http://www.pdfernhout.net/towards-a-post-scarcity-new-york-state-of-mind.html [pdfernhout.net]