<div dir="ltr">In my book on BIG, I argue that in the future it will be a tie between capitalism and communism. It will be capitalistic in the sense that the means of production will be privately owned, it will be communistic to the extent that the free market as we know it will disappear. The first step of the argument is to see what I call the second law of production where the means of production get cheaper and cheaper. Think of nanobots as being the means of production. The cost to product more means of production is zero within a rounding error. To see that we are well on the way, here's something from yours truly: <a href="https://markwalkersite.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/the-end-of-capitalism-and-the-second-law-of-production/">https://markwalkersite.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/the-end-of-capitalism-and-the-second-law-of-production/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dr. Mark Walker<br>Richard L. Hedden Chair of Advanced Philosophical Studies<br>Department of Philosophy<br>New Mexico State University<br>P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3B<br>Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001<br>USA<br><a href="http://www.nmsu.edu/~philos/mark-walkers-home-page.html" target="_blank">http://www.nmsu.edu/~philos/mark-walkers-home-page.html</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:37 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 Rafal Smigrodzki </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Capitalism is the system with private control of means of production</blockquote><div><br></div></span><font size="4">I don't know what you mean by "private", certainly not private people because human beings, private or otherwise, will not be the ones controlling the wealth generating machinery. The entire Left vs Right dialectic is becoming more obsolescent <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">every day and is well on its way toward total irrelevance. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Today's real dialectic is 8 people vs 3.6 Billion people, and tomorrow's will be zero people vs 7.2 Billion people. </font></div></font><br> <div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Government taxes both capital and labor and in the booming robot economy these greedy Washington bloodsuckers will have no problem finding enough victims to provide money for their nefarious schemes.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Methinks you're re-fighting the battles of the last war and not confronting the realities of the present situation. Fifteen or twenty years ago I sounded very much like you, but even then I realized strict libertarian dogma couldn't continue forever, however I figured it would be a long time before AI started to make a significant impact on the economy so I could worry about that at a latter time. Well that time has arrived and its come much sooner than I thought. </font></div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>
<br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-<wbr>chat</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>