[p2p-research] Tick, tock, tick, tock… BING

[J. Andrew Rogers]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Michel Bauwens
<michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> another interesting take is that of giovanni arrighi in his book adam smith
> in beijing; where he shows how east asia chooses industrious development
> over industrial development; i:e: automation is not always an automatic
> decision of capital in these regions of the world ...


There is a large "burn the tractors" policy element at work in many
parts of Asia. It creates relative impoverishment in a very real sense
but it keeps the peasants from rioting.  The governments figured out a
long time ago that if you widely distribute subsistence make-work it
is sufficient to keep the people from questioning corruption too
aggressively -- it gives the people something to lose.


-- 
J. Andrew Rogers
realityminer.blogspot.com