Romney doesn't care about 47% of americans

[Mr Khan]

kaneada said:

Mr Khan said:

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

This is why we need to move on to the post-property epoch.

Move on to, or move back to?

It'll be different this time, I'm sure.

It will be. A convergence of a few technologies will diminish the importance of capital ownership, which we can see in its infancy on the internet with the advent of shareware and piracy, but with the rise of renewable energy, crowdsourcing, and the industrial version of crowdsourcing in the form of 3D printers, we'll move down to a society where only a few services (natural resources and natural commodities like food) need to be mass-produced, and even food is trending away from big-industrial farming, long-run.

The major problem of the Soviet era was that it was in the heart of the industrial-capitalist era, when everything needed to be made large scale, and therefore the free market component was important becasue it was impossible to effectively, predictively, gauge the needs of consumers, which was largely where the Soviet Union failed (excellent heavy industry, hideously lacking light industry and end-consumer living standards)

Yeah let's gloss over the abusive government authority on this one...

Well, yes, the hierarchy of the Soviet Union had glaring cultural problems, but the nature of the system itself was flawed against the economic realities of the day.