These plutocrats will strongly resist their fall from power; maintaining their position is their agenda. And how can economics functions without money? I will all be interesting to watch.
Cheers: Axil On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson < svj.orionwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah! It's soapbox time! Let me step on top of mine! > > I suspect that if the prospects of robotics and LENR, or one of the > LENR cousins, pans out in the near future the concept of what money > represents to individuals, companies, and government circles will also > have to evolve with the times. Perhaps dramatically so. > > For thousands of years, as the concept of money and currency evolved > in our world it has all too often been used (I'd say abused) in > efforts to amass wealth along with the vestiges of power that go along > with it by small elite groups of individuals who are more adept than > the average person at amassing such artifacts. IMHO, the single most > egregious problem "money" has created in our society is the fact that > people attribute "wealth" and "power" to pieces of coins or paper > currency. Because they perceive "wealth" and "power" as linked to > pieces of coins and paper currency they have done a very good job of > keeping these commodities scarce, artificially so, which in turn keeps > such artifacts constantly in high demand. (Think of the monopoly De > Beers has artificially created over the diamond trade.) > > I think most of us have gotten the concept of money turned half-assed > backwards. Too many of us forget the fact that money in truth only > represents potential wealth & power. We forget is the fact that money > is only worth something when it is actively being used in transactions > between interested parties in order to purchase and/or exchange > artifacts of wealth & power among interested parties. When money is > not actively being used in such a manner, when money is sitting around > in a person's wallet, it has absolutely no value in itself. Granted, > few of this belief that... considering the number of individuals that > can a make a living as self-employed pickpockets in the world, but > that is the truth. > > If something as disruptive as LENR were suddenly to come along and > cause many of societies' products and services such as energy, food, > the basic products associated with survival and a means to a decent > living to become ubiquitous it will wreak havoc with a small group of > individuals who have made a very good living at controlling the supply > of coins and paper currency that historically had always been used to > control the scarcity of these articles. Their "services" will no > longer be needed. > > IMHO, LENR will not only be responsible for a huge paradigm shift in > the redistribution of energy, it will also be largely responsible for > the redistribution of political power back into the hands of > individuals and their respective local communities. > > My virtual 2 cents. > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > >
