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[_] [L] Anonymous 03/19/12(Mon)20:25 No.1639520
Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Q !rDGuVmz79Q 03/19/12(Mon)21:55 No.1639561
Ok, wrong post
There is no such thing as a truly durable good, everything has a life expectancy, even man
His world is a world with old computers, rotting cloths and, and rusting cars; all on time shares
no less
>> [_] Anonymous 03/19/12(Mon)22:14 No.1639573
The goal is admirable, but I highly doubt he can get what he wants and still have a
self-regulating rationing system like a market economy does. Unfortunately, it cut off before he
could presumably develop his idea further so I don't know if he did. But the market economy works
as well as it does because everything is decentralized. If you start centralizing your economy,
like I'm thinking he'll want to do, you start running into huge technical issues (philosophy
aside).
>> [_] Anonymous 03/19/12(Mon)22:15 No.1639574
>>1639573
cont.
I'm also amused by his distaste for infinite growth, although I'd say perpetual growth per worker
is more correct. It isn't that we should consume more and more every year, but that we should use
our resources more and more efficiently...making more from the same amount of input (or making
the same amount with less). And it isn't that we should necessarily even produce more
perpetually, but rather increase everyone's standard of living perpetually through increasing
efficiency of production. If I was on an island, I don't think a market economy would mean we'd
consume everything and die, as the price of the things we truly need would be high and so it
would be rationed accordingly. We'd only run into a problem through political mismanagement or
through incorrectly perceived benefits/costs, which would be a problem in any system with
fallible beings.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)00:39 No.1639628
It's nice of you to shoot his argument to pieces, but do you have a better system?
And even if his system is flawed, it's getting the idea out there that the current system is
doomed to fail. I'm sure he knows full well that some of his ideas are flawed, he isn't some
jackass that fell off the turnip truck.
It's the effort and the exposure he puts forth that creates the air of change he wants. He wants
to educate people more than anything else. This isn't about him or his perfect society, it's
about our flawed society and what we can do to change it, little by little.
Also, lol I live in Ojai.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)00:44 No.1639631
tl;dr
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)00:52 No.1639635
TLDR?
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)00:54 No.1639636
tldr. Not samefagging.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)00:58 No.1639639
Yo asshatts that actually watched this, there are 3 tldrs in this thread
post a summary
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)01:01 No.1639640
>>1639628
>It's nice of you to shoot his argument to pieces, but do you have a better system?
That sentence bugs me. Why does someone need to have a better system in mind before they're
allowed to comment on why someones idea for a system is bad? Why are you not allowed to point out
flaws in an argument if you don't have a better idea?
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)01:29 No.1639653
About his whole locking child in basement seems legit analogy there:
Not middle ages. It was an experiment done by the Egyptians to see what the older civilization
was. They left some kid on a farm for forever and the kid started saying "Baa" because he was
surrounded by sheep. Now, apparently "Baa" means something in Sumerian so they assumed Sumeria
was the older civilization. Boy were they wrong.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)06:00 No.1639708
>zeitgeist shit
How does it feel to know I'd rather watch a loop of a guy scooping up bees with his bare hands
than your psycho babble BULLSHIT?
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)07:40 No.1639726
>>1639708
You speak the truth. Let me explain my plans for a wasp based economy that the Jews don't want
you to hear about.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/20/12(Tue)08:18 No.1639735
Not a real TED talk
