Comments on: ‘Abolish artificial scarcity’: @KevinCarson1 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/abolish-artificial-scarcity-kevincarson1 Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 04 Dec 2016 14:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Jacob C. Witmer https://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/09/abolish-artificial-scarcity-kevincarson1#comment-299093 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 08:24:40 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=29803#comment-299093 It isn’t corporate structure, per se, that prevents decentralization, it’s the corrupted nature of the corporations that survive in a previously-corrupted legal system. Obviously, corporations have a lot of political power –far more than enough to change the system, when they really want to. (Wal-Mart is the best example of this, since they regularly use the initiative and referenda process when it will allow their stores to make slightly more money selling alcohol in previously “dry” counties. They know that political speech in their parking lots is necessary, and tolerate political petitioners in their lots –for the issues they wish to pass. In California and Massachusetts, where they are literally forced by law to allow petitioners, they put up signs that say “Petitioners are here without Wal-Mart’s blessing, and against Wal-Mart’s will…” –this indicates that they assess their customers as being so stupid and unaware of the basic concept of free speech that they feel the need to disavow all desire for free speech, rather than proudly claim to support it as the reason for the existence of “strange men with clipboards.”)

During the enlightenment (that, with the printing press, set the stage for the greatest explosion of wealth and living standards the world has ever seen), it literally would have been “strange men with scrolls and pamphlets.” ..Not much different from what a free system would create today.

…Until decentralized systems of GIS-informed cyber-signatures (and computer-controlled flying cars) replaced it.

In short: a decentralized, ultra-wealth-creating entrepreneurial-leaning system was already chosen and implemented by the Founding Fathers. …But we allowed it to be stripped from us like a silver coin from a toddler, because Americans made the fatal mistake of allowing government control of schooling in the late 1800s.

The remnants of that system are that people remain open to learning what the true meanings of “freedom of speech,” and “due process” actually are. The government schools couldn’t entirely erase that knowledge from the Constitutions their students have access to, regardless of how much easier it would make their task of indoctrinating, hyper-specializing, and corrupting the youth.

Note to author: I’m surprised(if the partial goal of this site is to disseminate “Shock-Level-4″ information to the non-Singularity-aware layman) that the words “atomically-precise manufacturing” aren’t linked to K. Eric Drexler’s site, which features both “Radical Abundance” and “Engines of Creation,” the book that first proposed the concept, in 1986. I’m surprised because Drexlerian nanotech is a vastly different kind of idea, a “leading force technology,” which even the best 3-D printers, are not. Said a different way: 3-D printers do not inherently change the entire human paradigm in the same way that Drexler predicts, “atomically-precise manufacturing” will.

Note to webmaster only: an error in the above article: the tag “stateless society” is spelled wrong (but very smart to allow dual-case, spaced, and punctuated keywords!). Also, perhaps that’s covered by the “anarchism” tag.

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