Re: [ox-en] On Bits and Pieces * How Information and Matter Are Similar

Hi StefanMz and all!

3 weeks (25 days) ago Stefan Meretz wrote:
> some comments on your interesting slides:

Thanks for the feedback.

> On 2010-03-25 17:36, Stefan Merten wrote:
>> * My claim: Rivalness is not a feature of the good
> 
> True.
> 
>>   * Instead: *Rivalness* depends on the *availability*
> 
> No, rivalness depends on usage.

True. But it depends on availability, too - right?

> However, increasing availability can be a measure to deal with rivalry.

In my slides I'm heading for the common denominator of production thus
I neglect the usage aspect. In any case a product needs to be
available at all so production is key in any case.

BTW: These slides were one of those cases where I think after some
years of thinking I think I got this point right: The difference
between information and matter vanishes when we are thinking society
and the production process becomes dominant.

>>   * *Availability* is a result of the *production process*
> 
> ... and, even more important, a result of the social form of production.
> 
> Often capitalism produces more goods then can be bought, but they are 
> not available for those who can't buy them although they need them.

I agree. Again that is not the point I'm trying to make with the
slides and thus I neglect this as well.


						Grüße

						Stefan

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