Re: [ox-en] verzola on abundance
Diego Saravia <dsa-AySywPH+/[email protected]>
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[Converted from multipart/alternative] [1 text/plain] 2010/7/6 Diego Saravia <dsa-AySywPH+/[email protected]> > > Looking more closely at the logic of business firms, it is obvious >> that the immediate effect of restricting abundance is to reduce >> supply and increase overall demand. These in turn raise prices or >> keep their levels high. If the costs of production change little or >> not at all and prices go up, then profits go up. This is the logic >> behind corporate efforts to develop technologies and influence State >> policies that give them closer control over the abundance and >> scarcity of goods: to create the best conditions for maximizing >> profits. >> > > > > that is called monopoly. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly > > > economist's answer is that society's higher goals are indeed served >> when everyone pursues their own selfinterest in free competition >> with others. >> > > only in free markets. > monopolies could not exist in free markets > > we have monopolies in every important market in the earth > > so free market economy is an illusion, its only a history for childs to > sleep. > > > > >> In fact, economists argue, the competitive pursuit of >> individual gain accomplishes overall social goals *better*, even if >> this "was no part of his intention," than when individuals >> consciously try to advance society's higher goals. > > > Nash proved that this stuff is not true. > http://makethemaccountable.com/myth/GreedIsGood.htm > > 1. Make the resource accessible to a greater number of people - >> ideally, to all. >> > > ok, but there are a lot of resources not available to all. > >> >> 2. Make sure the resource will last for generations, preferably >> indefinitely. >> > > in contradiction with 1 > > >> >> 3. Build a cascade of abundance. >> >> 1+2 > > > >> 4. Develop an ethic that nurtures abundance. >> >> > its ok if things are abundant. but a lot are not. > > >> 5. Attain dynamic balance. >> > > in contradiction with 1 and 2 > > > >> -- p.18ff. >> >> Advice 3 is BTW the way Free Software came into being. It all started >> with an editor (Emacs) and an compiler (Gcc). >> > > > in intellectual goods is ok, materials ones very difficult > >> >> He also gives some threats: >> >> 1. The current reliance on a nonrenewable energy base. >> >> > ok > > >> 2. The linear production processes of the industrial sector. >> >> ok > > >> 3. The unchecked growth of human population. >> >> ok > > >> 4. The unlimited corporate drive for profit. >> >> ok > >> -- p.20f. >> > > > -- > Diego Saravia > [email protected] > NO FUNCIONA->dsa-AySywPH+/[email protected] > -- Diego Saravia [email protected] NO FUNCIONA->dsa-AySywPH+/[email protected] [2 text/html] _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: [email protected]