From: "maxm" <maxm@maxmcorp.dk> To: <extropians@extropy.com> Subject: Re: Singularity: The Trendline Argument Date sent: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:16:25 +0200 Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> From: Joe E. Dees <jdees0@students.uwf.edu>
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>
> >> One thing is labour, but what i find more important than labor is the
> labors
> >> ability to learn. "To work smarter not harder" :-). If not, how come then
> >> that such a "small" group as the industrial world holds so much power and
> >> wealth compared to the rest of the world?
>
>
> >Their ability to make more and better weapons and take what they
> >want.
>
>
> Ahh but that is too simple an explanation. Off course it holds some truth
> but many of the thing that the industrial countries have stolen or bought
> cheap has had no or little actual value without the knowhow to use them. Oil
> is one example.
>
> Besides there are plenty of small industrialised countries that could have
> been robbed but hasn't, and a lot of Asian countries are getting a lot more
> wealthy these days without robbing anybody.
>
> The world is getting wealthier each and every day because of technology and
> knowhow.
>
> Wealth is not a zero sum game.
It has been easier on the other countries recently because we (1) have been willing to give them the technology necessary to process and manucacture goods out of their own resources, (2) have allowed them to retain those resources in order to process them themselves, and (3) have refrained from destroying either resource extraction facilities or the factories to process and manufacture goods from them. Our willingness to permit all this has a lot to do with our controlling financial interest in the extraction and processing of resources into manufactured goods, in tandem with the exploitation of cheap local labor (the human resource), which entails that an even further enhanced lion's share of the profit realized from such endeavors still flows into the coffers of multinational corporations based in the industrialized countries.
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> Hilsen/Regards
>
> Max M Rasmussen
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