"Hey Eckhart! Think About The Future."

[wolven7]

Just read this. Nothing fancy, nothing funny, nothing ranty, just read it.

http://grinding.be/2010/06/16/torrenting-the-future/

That is all

Comments

[karishi.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'm trying to wrap my brain around how that post-scarcity economy views people like Kirsten, who make art, or people like Action, who make...virtual playspace, or people like me, who make games.
And the old question of the farmer who sets up his farm and hires workers to do everything for him. How much of the profit does he deserve? What is the monetary value of composing a system? Under capitalism, the answer is typically "a lot." What about in this post-scarcity world?
What gets me is that if there truly is an abundance of everything we need, the people at the top will be fighting either out of confusion (belief that they'll suddenly have less in a new paradigm) or out of true sinful greed (characterized not by a desire to have more, but a desire to have more than).

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Take it from one who knows: It's usually the latter.

More Than is the motivating factor for the current capitalism, because it is our score card. It is the way we know we're winning. We have better, faster, shinier things, and we have so many of them that we can crush the ones we have and snort them. Give them to someone else?

Give someone a leg up? Then they might start to win, instead of me.

What people fail to see is how everyone can win, without anyone having to have less.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

We could use less crap as it is. People being forced to think about stuff-ness? Great way to make them cease to see it as if that steady stream of junk is a permanent thing.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Agreed.