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Well yes, in fact, the consolidation of all banks into one means you can rip out much of the coding. Same for every other sector of the economy which would be rationalized: the amount of data and calculations of same required is drastically reduced when you don't have millions of individual firms recalculating every day their prices, their stocks (both financial and real), etc. Greece's solidarity4all network is showing in practice how only the most rudimentary calculations are needed to keep track of the flow of thousands of volunteer hours and millions of euros worth of donated goods. A good set of input-output tables run through computers not much more powerful than the one each of us is typing on would handle most of the computing chores required for Greek society as a whole. And even the work needed to do calculations of foreign trade would be dramatically reduced once the state has a monopoly on control of such trade. (Plus think of the concentration of import/export and shipping firms globally in recent decades.) On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/14/15 1:51 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: > >> . I've spent 15 years working with computer systems at a hospital, in >> which a couple dozen systems, some compatible with each other, some not, >> capture all of the patient's demographic, financial and clinical >> information. 50% of that data would be unnecessary in a single-payer >> system, 95% of it in a socialized healthcare sector. The point being >> that the availability of complex computer systems means they fill a void >> that probably didn't need to be created in the first place. >> > > Got it. Greece has to combine all its banks into a single bank to start > off. That will make the job of writing 60 billion lines of code a lot > easier, especially given Greece's enormous pool of IT specialists. (Wake me > when this Trotskyist fantasy nightmare is over.) > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
