Spike,<div>you still don't address the question of what happens with the robots do all the menial tasks.</div><div>Can you give me a piece of you mind on that?</div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:09 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">On Behalf Of </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Giovanni Santostasi<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>I think too much competition (and narrow minded goals) is the problem not the good thing about capitalism<span style="color:#1f497d">…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Cool, we can find out which is best. Let’s have a competition.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span> Plus is not really true this form of capitalism (corporatism) is always fostering competition, not at least healthy forms of competition, there are so many monopolies and nested companies<span style="color:#1f497d">…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ja! A wonderful mix is seen, with competitors sometimes working together to whoop a third competitor, then more competitors forming defacto teams to devour others. Constructive chaos ensues. In the very long run, even the losers win, because they leave the loser company and join the guy that whooped them. Then they work together on the better products that won before.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>Sometime humans need to cooperate instead of competing to achieve grandiose goals<span style="color:#1f497d">…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Exactly! This is what capitalism does so very well: people work together, cooperate to compete, the best products rise to the top and make the winners rich! Young people see the winners, and want to be like them. When we were kids who would have guessed that the geek would inherit the earth? Yet here was Bill Gates, and it would be hard to imagine a geekier guy, who ends up owning everything that is worth having. You and I reap the benefits, and to some extent pay the price. Life is good.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>Even great national collaborative efforts, like early space exploration, that seemed propelled by international competition with other nations was actually killed by it when the space race was perceived to be won<span style="color:#1f497d">…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ja, the big manned rocket systems were funded because it developed for us the ability to lift weapons and deliver them to the bad guys, and the control systems to steer them accurately on their way. Turns out we didn’t need to do that, but we got the rocket systems and advanced control systems out of the deal. The fact that we and the commies developed these advanced rockets and nukes meant we didn’t need to face each other on the battlefield and hurl chunks of metal at each other. Now we really don’t need to do that at all (even though some primitive savages are still doing it.) <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">In evolution, there is the term preadaptation, an example being feathers evolved as heat retention mechanisms, but eventually worked great for flying. Our rockets were developed for lifting nukes, but eventually worked great for flying.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>If the goal was that of competing with one self, to go to the next step civilizations would have higher and more ambitious goals.<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span>Giovanni<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Economically whooping ass can be a higher and more ambitious goal. In the long run, competition is our friend.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
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