Good definition of capitalism. I wonder if post capitalism might actually mean post industrialism in this new, decentralized, digitized, democratized, and disinflationary age.Yes, destruction of records reaches back centuries in insurrections.As for "post capitalist"... not sure. I"m waiting for a realization that the essence of capitalism (in my mind) is reward for innovation and hard work... while broadly supporting public service and equality of opportunity... and curtailing the excesses which occur without meaningful checks and balances.Tom CrowlOn Sat, May 14, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Jason Wong < " target="_blank"> > wrote:For the post capitalists out there, check out photo 4/7. For those of you that don't read the wsj on principle, this article is free.Burn those darn stock certificates. Yay!
On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, David Brin < " target="_blank"> > wrote:And yet look around you. I refute cynics thus... by pointing to this incredible ongoing enlightenment revolution, that has lasted five times longer that Pericles's earlier experiment, accomplishing vastly more. It did not just happen. The revolution is under constant threat -- nowadays from an attempted oligarchic-feudalist putsch. But each generation managed to do politics well enough to keep it moving forward.BTW: Today, Evonomics ran my appraisal of how Advertising is failing the Internet. I explore how a real Web economy might replace the maelstrom of ads. Could simple micro-payments work, paying pennies for what you use? I’ve been working on this analysis for 3 years. A two-parter with major implications for your future online.I am grateful to those of you who supplied valuable feedback. And I highly recommend the Evonomics site.
Interestingly, I suspect that almost the entire U.S. Constitution was a “five beers” idea — in 1783. Those guys took a bunch of theorizing by Enlightenment philosophers, seasoned it with lots of practical experience and invented democratic government (and if we think there was agreement across the board, joe should look at the Ten Dollar bill and recall how differences were settled then — Mssrs Hamilton and Burr)GuyFrom: Jason Wong < >
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 14:04
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Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Banking and the MicropaymentAgree! Results count.Disagree on the five beers. As an Asian I can't drink five beers. I think it has to do with not having a certain enzyme!Instead of cludged prescription that sound really cool over one's fifth beer, how about this unique idea. Actually restore something called "politics" as a process of sober negotiation engaged-in by adults?Your own cynical-dismissive chuckle, upon reading the previous sentence is THE major symptom of a disease that has been deliberately inflicted upon us by those whose core aim is to stymie one of the most important problem-solving modes of the Western Enlightenment. Destroying politics as a grownup and serious process of negotiation has been nothing less than treason.There is no pretending equality of blame. Let's take Jason's sunset clause for regulations... a real five beer proposal. How about instead responsibly auditing agencies and deliberating which ones to revise or cancel? You might imagine republicans do this, but when they had complete control over all three branches of government -- from 2001 through 2007 -- they eliminated zero agencies and only deregulated Wall Street and resource extraction, two deregulations for which we paid trillions.(In fairness, in 1996 the Congressional GOP did banish and eliminate their own bipartisan Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) which kept offering up inconvenient "facts.")So which party banished the captured Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) or the captured Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) restoring competition to airlines and rails? Who broke up AT&T's monopoly? Who deregulated GPS and who pushed through the famous bill unleashing the Internet upon the world? I could go on, but you might guess the answer by now, know it was Al Gore's bill that did that last miracle.There is no "balance" here. One party still wants to engage in pragmatic, negotiated politics. The other will not sit at the table. They have made it declared policy to burn the table.
How about this- constitutional amendment every ten years for a complete top down review of all federal laws, regulations and executive directives. Mandatory cleaving of ( % ) of the above, and disestablishment of any laws greater than 50 years old. That will solve the historical issue of empires and nations failing over due to the sheer weight of oppression.This is kind of a squirrel, but I think that some of the ideas that the illustrious Mr. Heinlein listed in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress were even more interesting:
- Elect representatives by private sector “career” — doctors would vote for someone to represent them, engineers would vote for someone to represent them, etc. The question of course is would there be representative for career criminals ;-)
- Voters aggregate alphabetically rather than geographically — that would force a national legislature to view bills differently and force local councils/legislatures to focus on local issues (which my neighbors seem incapable of doing — they are far more interested in solving other peoples’ problems; sigh…)
- Hold an election and then randomly choose 60% of the winners and fill out the legislature by choosing the remaining 40% random
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