On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Schell <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't mean to hijack the conversation away from HD players or flaming, but > I really like this subject ;) > >>>I am not sure if a > society that has everything for free can survive for long. You get > everything you want, why work? Very few would even want to excel > because their excelling at something won't have a direct impact on > their lives (except some pats on the back). > > In my understanding of a free and open society, at least one that's based on > resources as opposed to money, all the basic necessities of life are > provided for through modular, sustainable compounds. The people that would > work at these compounds would do so for the benefit of the community. Had > everyone decided to space out all day every day and never contribute to > society, the society would fail and everybody's standard of living falls. So > the drive to succeed and excel would be to directly affect the quality of > life of everyone in your community, as opposed to simply you and your > family's lives. The barter system would hold up as a necessity, "You have > lot's of energy but no means to produce iron? Here is some iron, we have too > much. Please give us some energy, we have a deficit in that department." > Hoarding resources as wealth hurts society as a whole in this situation [and > probably does in our respective societies as well] but since there is no > monetary value applied to such resources, hoarding is unnattractive due to > the demurrage incurred. Resources tend to degrade as they sit unused, making > them less valuable. I think the real problem or downside is that these > systems are really vulnerable to violence, warlords, etc. There's no budget > for a military here and it seems likely that outside forces would be very > interested in your resources. But I think humans are smart enough to work > out a successful system, we'd just need to dedicate some time to it, but who > has time? I don't.
I agree open sourcing HD players would bring us all a *big* step further on the path to a perfect society. +++++++ Clément [ps: closed source = nazis ! Godwin says the discussion is over !] > -- > Schell Scivally > http://blog.efnx.com > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
