From: spike66 (spike66@ATTBI.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 15:11:04 MDT
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>>Products to the market, not soldiers to the battlefield.
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>Kai Becker wrote:
>The problem is, that business entities only aim to maximize their monetary
>win.
>
That sounds like a solution, not a problem. Make money, not war.
> This is perfectly okay, because that's what the investors (the
>capitalists) gave their money for.
>
Roger that.
> But it is also a positive feedback loop
>without any inbuild self-control regarding social aspects. And any system
>without a self-regulation, i.e. a negative feedback-factor, will finally
>end in a catastrophy.
>
I partly agree. It will end in a massive change, a spike, a singularity
perhaps, but it isnt clear to me that it is necessarily a catastrophy.
>How do you like your new t-shirt "original childwork from India"?
>
Kai, I agree that there are downsides to capitalism, but capitalism
eventually solves these kinds of problems. The western world had
child labor until pretty recently. Now it is a struggle to get enough
half-assed 18 year olds interested in 9 dollar an hour jobs flipping
burgers.
Capitalism solved that problem, India will solve it, Africa will solve
it. Besides, our machines will soon be far cheaper than even children
in even the poorest countries. So the problem of child labor will
very soon be replaced with the problem of child unemployment.
I wonder how the press will spin that? spike
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