From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 10:37:08 MST
owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
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>> ### Good point. However, the Poorhouse is only a part of my social
>> plan. The other side is the control of very large economical
>> entities, to prevent monopolies. In the absence of monopolies, the
>> means of production are a part of the market, any reasonably prudent
>> person (as I hope I am) can obtain them, and in a fully automated
>> way provide more than food and shelter for himself.
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> Bzzt. The "means of production" are the mind. You still seem to be
> thinking in flatland economics.
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### Are you saying I am two-dimensional?
The means of production are much more than the mind. Hammers, gene chips,
patents, generators, publicly traded and private companies, standards, and
parietal cortices, too.
Rafal
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