[p2p-research] thinking about leapfrogging

[M. Fioretti]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 17:39:11 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:01 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
>
> The easiest example (but there are surely others) of full time
> professionals to not touch is doctors. Would you trust somebody who
> grabs a surgical blade only once every six weeks because he or she
> has to self produce his own bricks, food, clothes... to slice your
> belly or fill a cavity?
>
> This is a good example, because you can't actually trust doctors nor
> the mainstream medical system without a much stronger 'p2p'
> component.

of course, but I wasn't excluding the kind of "p2p-ness" you mention
when I wrote "let's not touch doctors".

Writing that, I only mean that if you want quality of life (the best
possible health care, in this case) there are fields where it doesn't
make sense to go for the "everybody does everything he needs
personally or with his peers".

There must be somebody, instead, who does it full time, to get as good
as he can, and cannot be distracted by the need to grow his own food
or make his own clothes or home personally. If somebody has to open me
or drill my teeth, I want he or she to be people who have practiced
full time for years before getting even close to me, not part-timers.
And I don't want to hear from them "your wisdom tooth will have to
wait, because if I don't harvest my field this week I won't eat for
the whole winter". This doesn't exclude at all what you propose.

It's the same thing I said about politics, basically: the more direct
control and exchange of informations from "end users", the more
accountability, the better. And producing as much as possible one
needs personally or locally, great. But to live well the system must
allow for specialists.

Marco

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