I am emphasizing having governments print out (Keynes style) absolutely, colossal, amounts of cash, as a reward for coming up with excellent disease treatments and cures, human solar system tours, and clean energy solution, environmental remediation. If the banks won't fund researchers, then private equity will, if private equity won't then a million contributors-open source-will, provided they get a cut of the reward offered by a government prize. I wouldn't be shocked if you, Professor, Marchal, might summon up 25 ECU's in exchange for receiving 3000 ECU's or Golden Yuans, in payment, 5 years later.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 3:58 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov 2013, at 02:43, LizR wrote: On 6 November 2013 14:38, <spudboy...@aol.com> wrote: We could offer a 20 or 100 billion dollar prize for a new clean energy source and award the winner. The contestents would have to get bank or private equity funding to accomplish this. We can do the same for medicine and outer space too. Sounds good to me. How do you persuade the banks etc to put up the prize money? Allowing effective competition would solve the problem, easily. But banks and your taxes invest in preventing real competition, and that is the origin of the problem. Our system is good, but old, and by tolerating the prohibition nonsense, we have put bandits into power, and they have crushed the separation guards. There is nothing wrong being rich, unless the money is stolen money, and that's the case today. The war on drugs and the war on terror are used to hide that facts. It is still better than in Somalia, unless you are dying in some hospital, because the effective treatment is forbidden, or you are just in jail because you defend the constitution. Prohibition *has* transformed the whole planet in a giant "Chicago". We are not governed by elected people, but by well organized gangs with very special interest. Media and a part of the academic world is rotten. Might TOR saves our children ... Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
