I'll take your word for it re. the relative values (sizes?) of the electronics and entertainment industries. Do you think the fact that the USA is a net exporter of entertainment and a net importer of electronics might have something to do with it? It would seem to me unlikely that a first world workforce could compete in -anything- (even starving artistry) without some fairly aggressive dongling of information. I'd rather see the first world experiment with the idea that the work ethic is obsolete than the idea that the institution of intellectual property isn't.
I was living under the impression that the "post-scarcity" thing was Bookchin's brainchild. Not that I see any reason why disputes over the pedigrees of brainchildren should matter.
The intellectual propertarian trend in business and law affects a hell of a lot more than media. It jacks up the going rate ("relative price") for intellectual livelihood opportunities measured in the currency of non-disclosure politics. It may even have something to do with why DIY auto mechanics is a tougher art to learn that it used to be.
Can amateur X and professional X coexist in the same economy? Probably not, at least without some kind of specialization, such as amateur mechanics specializing in old cars.
I have yet to salescritter myself into a job that requires more than about an 8th grade level of education. I've been letting it mess with my self esteem way too much, and that's not healthy. Now I'm proud never to have signed a non-disclosure agreement!
How is the situation described in the article different from the situation that enables the slashdot organization to disable both the View|Source and File|Save As menu's on the web browser on "my computer?
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Since I don't code, I do thought experiments. Lately, they've been about "turnkey" operations large enough for thousands. I imagine thought experiments of this sort as as common as hemeroids. Anyone else into Douglas Hofstadter's "Alternative State of the Union"?
Will it (still?) be OK for individuals to upload information about their own internet usage?
I'll take your word for it re. the relative values (sizes?) of the electronics and entertainment industries. Do you think the fact that the USA is a net exporter of entertainment and a net importer of electronics might have something to do with it? It would seem to me unlikely that a first world workforce could compete in -anything- (even starving artistry) without some fairly aggressive dongling of information. I'd rather see the first world experiment with the idea that the work ethic is obsolete than the idea that the institution of intellectual property isn't.
I was living under the impression that the "post-scarcity" thing was Bookchin's brainchild. Not that I see any reason why disputes over the pedigrees of brainchildren should matter.
The intellectual propertarian trend in business and law affects a hell of a lot more than media. It jacks up the going rate ("relative price") for intellectual livelihood opportunities measured in the currency of non-disclosure politics. It may even have something to do with why DIY auto mechanics is a tougher art to learn that it used to be.
Can amateur X and professional X coexist in the same economy? Probably not, at least without some kind of specialization, such as amateur mechanics specializing in old cars.
I have yet to salescritter myself into a job that requires more than about an 8th grade level of education. I've been letting it mess with my self esteem way too much, and that's not healthy. Now I'm proud never to have signed a non-disclosure agreement!
This is even better than polkadot spray paint, and on the horizon sooner than "bauble" technology...
They must have come across this or the equivalent.
How is the situation described in the article different from the situation that enables the slashdot organization to disable both the View|Source and File|Save As menu's on the web browser on "my computer?
It's called "free enterprise". It's making an enterprise out of things that used to be free.