[p2p-research] [ox-en] Marginalism - the religion

[marc fawzi]

You cannot marginalize friction in a given system. If you do, you will
eventually come to a screeching halt.

But what I'm saying is the holistic cost of digital goods and services,
which I listed in five bullets, are not merely friction, they're more like
gravity...

It does not mean we cannot fly or move about. We just have to realize that
we need a continuous supply of energy at a sufficient conversion rate to
counter friction and/or gravity.

There has been millions of otherwise good thinkers (including some brilliant
software engineers I know and I would suspect some physicists) who have
attempted a modern day version of perpetual motion design, and realized the
laws of physics have not yet changed their mind.

So marginalizing gravity is an even more dead ended way. Socializing (or
distributing the cost of friction to all wheels in equal manner) does not
marginalize cost. It simply distributes it evenly.

I think that if the five costs I listed are socialized then human beings can
focus on creativity and competition and less on survival and competition.

Marc


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Diego Saravia <diego.saravia at gmail.com>wrote:

> but, what is the importance of marginal costs?
>
>
> the central point is that we have already make a huge inversion in
> network technology, and we are paying costs for having it.
> but
> it will cost almost the same if we use it or not
> for copying information or knowledge
>
> so in the info society the marginal cost of info  duplication  is almost 0
>
> so copied info have not economical price (and value). copied info is a
> free good (as in economy and as in free software)
>
> if you agree that marginal costs determine  prices (that is a big if,
> off course), but seems to be true in capitalist societies.
>
> and if there are not artificial regulations like copyright
>
> in fact there are only one country in the world with  positive balance
> in copyright (USA), England is neutral.
>
>
> copyright is one of the principals mechanism of international
> explotation in the present economy.
> search alan story 10 thesis .....
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