Open Source capitalists
Ian Murray
seamus2001 at home.com
Tue Aug 28 13:31:51 PDT 2001
Capitalism is the most adaptive economic system ever
> invented, nothing is more flexible.
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Then why is the planet so fucked up--see "Something New Under the Sun"
by J R McNeill; we're the most inelegant species tossed up by
evolution that I've seen. The question seems to be can capitalism
adapt to it's own maladaptiveness especially given the Biblical
approach to the planet *still* dominant in the US. The inequalities of
knowledge are only going to exacerbate the inequalities of wealth
unless we radically democratize access to scientific knowledge in
order to have a, literally, faster and more productive discussion
about what to do with all the knowledge we have available to mitigate
ecosystem stresses.
McNeill's book is a great riposte to the guy who's getting all the
green headlines.
Ian
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