[p2p-research] the abundance of art

[marc fawzi]

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On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:27 AM, <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:

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> yes, but we dont necessarily need it either
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We're driven as much by our wants as our needs with "wants" being
"psychological and biological needs" as opposed to survival needs of food,
shelter and water.

When it comes to psychological needs, a lot of people, including myself,
seek uniqueness in things or like the artist friend you mention give
uniqueness to things. Our seeking of uniqueness is exploited by capitalism
and is at the root of artificial scarcity, i.e. price things high enough
that very few can get them (it rides on this want to have something unique)
or release only a limited number of some supercar model and price it
astronomically. The creation of scarcity seems to be something some of us
need at the psychological level.

 So maybe we should take some of the blame for having the tendency to seek
uniqueness and to attach or give uniqueness to things whether emotionally
(by modifying the object in our mind so that it is unique) or physically (by
modifying the object)

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>> Marc
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>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:13 AM, <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> very important questions indeed
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>>> but  scarcity and uniqueness and rarity are not synonms nor are
>>> semantically equivalent, imho
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>>> same as
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>>> value and price are not synonyms
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>>> a unique piece of art is of no practical use really
>>>  when hungry or thirsty, its trade value that can generate
>>> a breadcrumb, and I agree, thats where the whole economic mechanism
>>> builds on and distorts the real value of things
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>>>> So ... why? Why do we seek scarcity (uniqueness, rarity) ? It's
>>>> instilled in us.
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>>>> It's not intrinsic to the money. We made the money. And it's not
>>>> intrinsic to nature either as natural evolution is taking us to a stateof
>>>> existence where everything (physical and digital) can be copied
>>>> (identically) and distributed freely.
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>>>> So ... why?
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>>>> Why do _WE_ enforce (or seek to have) scarcity?
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>>>> That is my question.
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> Paola Di Maio,
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