Durant wrote:
http://csf.colorado.edu/sustainable-economics/daly/
> >
>
> Is there a theory you could sum up?
Very short abstract on above website does that.
> If you are
> eliminating profit-growth, you are eliminating capital.
No. No-growth doesn't eliminate existing infrastructure or existing
tokens/credits.
Capital can still change hands - zero sum.
> > Re distribution scheme, nothing wrong in theory; but scarcity causes
> > competition, and scarcity(per capita) increases every day.
> >
>
> Hm? There's no scarcity of houses, yet there are a multitude of
> homeless people, same goes for good cloths, food etc even
> in our "best" economies.
I'm talking globally: 7 million net new humans/month, increased debt, &
disappearing natural capital/biosphere health. Surplus is local & temporary
only.
> So all the supernatural lore is based in reality, and not on
> the ignorance and pattern making ability of human imagination
> in the absence of scientific data,
> describing storms, vulcanoes, sun and moon - and human stereotypes,
> such as women and slaves are animals, foreigners talk gibberish and
> have dog-head, barbarians, infidels, sons of satan , etc, etc.
Define 'reality'. A unicorn, the devil, a mermaid (cedna is main goddess
for Inuit/Eskimo) are all "real" beliefs that influence real behavior.
"Ideas" like that are part of reality, and even have predictive &
explanatory value.
(big snip)
> and should be as obsolete as slave-keeping.
That's been my point for years(others too). You are fighting for a
"should", the "ought". Wittgenstein: "ethics & aesthetics are one"
(subjective/relative)
> besides, I would contradict your stereotyping of
> my genetics if I won't have the last word...
How does "studious" equal 'competitiveness'? That's the trait of getting
the "last word"! And that's the trait you try to deny to the natural
world!!
Now I promise no further response from me on this thread.
Steve
--
"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being
paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy,
in our age, can still do for those who study it."
Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy"
