[p2p-research] The Production Bubble: Why Capitalism Withholds Solutions and Gets Away with It

[M. Fioretti]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 15:18:19 PM -0400, Ryan Lanham
(rlanham1963 at gmail.com) wrote:
  
> Scarcity is a function (always) of incentives.  What most people on
> this list fail to try to understand is the psychology of incentives.
> Incentives are why utopian colonies always fail.

Ryan,

_if_ you feel like it, may I ask you to elaborate (separately?) on the
last two sentences above? I understand (I think) everything else you
said, but the part above makes me real curious.

TIA,
	Marco