Re: [ox-en] Commons in a taxonomy of goods
Diego Saravia <dsa-AySywPH+/[email protected]>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity 2010/6/19 Diego Saravia <dsa-AySywPH+/[email protected]>: >> However, satisfying needs is only a secondary effect of producing goods >> as commodities, the first and alien goal is to make money. In order to >> make money goods must be scarce. Thus scarcity is a defect by design, >> because due to being a precondition of selling commodities scarcity can >> never be overcome. > > > Production  system reflects the fact that economics goods are scarce > > We have not enough petroleoum, iron, etc. to increase production over > certain levels > > Scarcity is not a design defect, only in intelectual goods limited by > the means of copyright. > > Its a fact of a material world, you will make Green Party, very angry > http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/issues/environment/bottleneck.html > > Off course we have a very unequal distribution system, that was > correctly described and explained by Marx. > > And we can reduce a lot of poverty  if we can change that distribution > system, but we cannot have a production system without limits. > >>Yes, my proposal is to distinguish between limitation -- and there are >>limitations for a lot of resources -- and scarcity, which I would agree >>is "artificial limitation" or as you put it "limitation by design". > > perhaps what you are trying to call scarcity is normally called > poverty, or unequal distribution. > > what you call limits is usually called scarcity > what you call scarcity is usually called unequal distribution or poverty > > -- > Diego Saravia > [email protected] > NO FUNCIONA->dsa-AySywPH+/[email protected] > -- Diego Saravia [email protected] NO FUNCIONA->dsa-AySywPH+/[email protected] _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: [email protected]