Corporations are collective intelligences -- people -- but they need someone to sell to. No point in owning all the air or water unless you have millions of people desperate to pay for it! But that said, horizons of five years are a long time for most companies. CEOs incentivized to extract every bit out of those short horizons to please their shareholders. And the shareholders are too selfish to achieve something like Elysium or even large private water desalination plants. Even if there is a small evil population that kills off the rest, I don't see how capitalism is going to lead to that.
-----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 8:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] water, again (was murder offsets) I should have linked this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-ted-chiang-transcript.html "It’s capitalism that wants to reduce costs and reduce costs by laying people off. It’s not that like all technology suddenly becomes benign in this world. But it’s like, in a world where we have really strong social safety nets, then you could maybe actually evaluate sort of the pros and cons of technology as a technology, as opposed to seeing it through how capitalism is going to use it against us. How are giant corporations going to use this to increase their profits at our expense?" On 4/19/21 8:01 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > Ha! Sure. ... it still looks like SteveS called it with the Red Queen's Race. > Even if such tech solves more problems than it creates, it'll still be > distributed according to the power structures in place (e.g. rich people) > when the tech's ready to scale. > > On 4/19/21 7:54 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Again technology to the rescue... Nanotechnology for desalinization. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? >> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 7:45 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [FRIAM] water, again (was murder offsets) >> >> Copper? Natural gas? Pffft! Water's the interesting one. >> >> https://theconversation.com/interstate-water-wars-are-heating-up-alon >> g-with-the-climate-159092 >> >> And another one: >> https://www.theolympian.com/news/business/article250595449.html >> >> On 4/15/21 7:59 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: >>> Another good example is water rights across states given watersheds, >>> flood irrigation, etc. >>> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/arizona-water-one-p >>> er >>> centers> >>> >>> So, the question you're asking (how might "storage" in BTC be less >>> preferable to other assets?) isn't really answerable *without* first >>> discussing what that reservoir is *for*, what end does it serve? > -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
