From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 18:49:40 MDT
On 2002.06.08, Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
>
> That is how the game used to be played. Extropians can change the
> rules. We can devise a way that everybody can choose to win without
> sabotaging other players.
Do you consider owning and limiting the use of intellectual property
to be an extropian activity?
If others can benefit from the technology you possess, then in
order for everybody to win, shouldn't you share it freely with
everyone?
Until Extropians figure out a way to change the rules regarding
money, I think you're merely talking in ideals which might be
nice lofty goals, but not valuable to the people who are living
now.
At one point, the game involved merely life and death. Then it
became more "civilized" and involved mate ownership. Then, it
became more civilized and became fiefdom. Now, it's even more
civilized and it involves the accumulation of money.
It may not be considered "sabotaging" but when only selected
people get to benefit from technology while others don't, it's
not "sabotaging" but the net effect is similar ...
-- Dossy
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Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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