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On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 17:49, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
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