Re: [ox-en] Necessary growth (was: Re: Explanation of interest)

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On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Diego Saravia <[email protected]>wrote:

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> 2009/5/9 Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>
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> > Hi Stefan:
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> > I think there are 2 issues:
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> > - growth in immaterial aspects: that may be considered, given a few
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> > (such as the material basis on which it may rest), potentially infinite
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> if we have an "exchange economy" and we have infinite inmaterial "products"
> with and artificial price, this products will cause an increasing preassure
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Hi Diego,

we can already see how immaterial abundance, as with free software,
transcends the boundaries of the exchange economy; when there is no tension
between supply and demand, it creates huge problems for retaining market
forms, unless you can enforce artificial scarcity; I'm assuming that in the
long run, such attempts will fail



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> the owners of inmaterial products will use its to buy stuff (aka Bill
> gates)
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