Re: Asimov Site

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <FB1q5.73133$rd1.12679913@typhoon-news1.southeast.rr.com>,
**** **** <***@***.com> wrote:
 
> Roy and/or Janet Miller wrote in message <39A8848F.3D78FA28@inetnebr.com>...
> 
>> Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints - and try not to
>> leave even those.
> 
>     Until of course 7 Eleven pays the park service $50mil to get it renamed
> "7 Eleven's Petrified Forest" after which the 'look and feel' of it will be
> a trademarked. At that point, you see, they have to sue people who take
> photographs, they can't help it. Failure to do so, of course would forfeit
> their trademark rights, and even if they wanted to be nice....
> 
>     Roy, it might suprise you, but you can still remain a non-marxist, and
> see the flaws in capitalism, especially corporatism. One day, physical items
> will be just as easily copied as software is today. There might be
> limitations, but one day it will happen, even fools should be able to see
> that. Whether its 10 years from now, or 50,000 who can say? Should today's
> rules apply then?
 
In 50,000 years a LOT of things will have happened !!!!  By them I'm quite
convinced today's capitalism will be viewed as an ancient and hopelessly
outdated ideology -- much like we today view the society of the stone age.
 
Think back a mere 4,000 years -- less than 1/10 of those 50,000 years
you mentioned: back then, mankind's most advanced civilisation was
the Pharaonic Egypt.  A lot has happened since then -- and the pace of
change seems to be going faster and faster...
 
 
> Now, is capitalism sucks, and marxism sucks, what else is there? Dunno yet,
> but I could use some help figuring it out.
 
Perhaps environmentalism?  It's a vague ideology, still in its infancy,
but it firmly points to one of the fundamental flaws in capitalism, i.e.
that it assumes exponential economic growth forever, or else it collapses.
In time, it must be replaced by a system which can sustain itself even in
a non-growth situation.
 
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