Re: Profit and Value, was: Re(2): [ox-en] extrinsic motivation = coercion
marc fawzi <[email protected]>
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Patrick, OK, I understand what you mean now. Your initial response left out the details of your thinking. But this creates inequality between initial owner-consumers and later owner-consumers which is, imo, justified only until the investment of the initial owner-consumers is paid back... no? On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Patrick Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Diego Saravia <[email protected]> wrote: >> [Converted from multipart/alternative] >> >> [1 text/plain] >> 2009/5/7 Patrick Anderson <[email protected]> >> >>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM, marc fawzi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > If there is no profit margin, >>> >>> >>> Please read what I have written more carefully. >>> >>> >>> We *SHOULD* charge price above cost. There *SHOULD* be a profit 'margin'. >> >> >> >> why? > > > For growth. > > I don't see any other way to work our way out of the grip of the > Capitalists except to buy it all back from them. > > So, for those of us willing invest early to start a business that > treats profit as described, we will need to make initial investment > for 'bootstrapping' - to get the organization formed. > > But we must ALSO collect price above cost for late-comers as THEIR > investment, since how else will we buy the Almond trees and > Grape-vines and Cattle needed to supply them with the food that THEY > must consume? > > Assuming we can get this started, and it is operating as we see fit - > for instance, supplying us with "at cost" organic whole milk under our > absolute control - we can't use those exact same cattle for newcomers, > for there is a limited supply - so we must fund the birth or purchase > of MORE cattle. > _________________________________ > Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ > Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ > Contact: [email protected] > -- Marc Fawzi Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Marc-Fawzi/605919256 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcfawzi _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: [email protected]