Lennart,
I agree that a change in the system is desperately needed. we need a more
equitable distribution of wealth but I don't see this happening without
gov intervention & regulation.
I certainly agree that there is a lot of room for improvement in
government regulation as most institutions are very CYA & risk averse (I
work with highway dept. projects all the time), but that said, codes and
standards are essentially good for industry & society even if
implementation can always be improved.
Ron
--On Thursday, August 13, 2015 11:04 AM -0800 Lennart Thornros
<lenn...@thornros.com> wrote:
Ron - I agree that is as it is. Money is there for manipulation. It was
originally to help the barter. Now it is a system all by itself. Its
production is zilch. It is just working for political reasons.
Maybe I am naive. you know I heard almost 30 years ago when i moved to
the US that leadership and management was control over the workforce and
to get the maximum for minmum pay. Today the theory is coming close to
what I believed already at that time. Companies like Google are my
believe but I do think they grown to big to survive as a forefront in
this regards. You say that all the fancy stuff Wall street are inventing
is 'unregulated'. No, not at all. That is products / functions created
as a pay back to the regulator as a benefit. When the system brakes down
there are two parties to take responsibilities and that is the
regulators, which was well aware but wanted Wall street to get this perk
and than the greedy Wall street itself. It is not unregulated - you and
I could not start businesses with this type of products.
If I believed in laissez faire that would be naive. I believe in simple
system with a minimum of regulations and a minimum of 'products'. Ian
showed the ideas I think are needed. Not that I believe that this is
exactly how it could /should be done. Rather that a change is required
and that technology can replace the many outdated laws we have.
Everything changes except for the political system. I would rather see
that we change the current format to a working modern system. The
alternative is some kind of revolution, when the system becomes so
obsolete that it implodes. I think that type of change is negative and I
think that to search for improvement in a moderate pace is better. The
real problem is that we are moving very fast to the point of no return,
by constantly 'improving' the existing system.
Change is necessary and if it is a continuous process it is easy and
uneventful. Evaluate the situation - make a plan for what could work
better - implement that plan - evaluate . . . .
Best Regards ,
Lennart Thornros
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Craig Haynie <cchayniepub...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 17:57 +0100, Ian Walker wrote:
Hi all
In all honesty we need to consider a post capitalism world.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/aug/12/paul-mason-c
apitalism-failing-time-to-panic-video?CMP=fb_us
There are only two types of economies that have been demonstrated in the
world: An economy which allows people to trade freely; and an economy
which commands all production and distribution. To date, no one has
demonstrated how the latter can replace the former. The narrator in the
video, above, equates capitalism with violence, but there is no causal
link between the two. Free trade does not lead to mass surveillance,
wars, and riot squads. He is, rather, equating a philosophy based on
violence with a philosophy based on free trade, where no such
relationship can be shown to exist.
Craig
