[p2p-research] thinking about leapfrogging

[Michel Bauwens]

of course, I agree, and I really wonder, who doesn't??

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:20 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> 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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