The World After Capital
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The World After Capital
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Re: The World After Capital
#2If you want to read an economic examination of a world without scarcity, I can recommend Trekomics. The title may sound fanciful, but the subject is not. Some of the trends discussed and the social phenomena do seem to be happening.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E6USVP0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Re: The World After Capital
#3From the FAQ:
It is a work in progress. The current version is a rough draft with many problems and placeholders. I am using gitbook and github to keep track of versions of this website and the book itself.
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#4From the FAQ: It is a work in progress. The current version is a rough draft with many problems and placeholders. I am using gitbook and github to keep track of versions of this website and the book itself. You definitely do not get that impression just looking at the homepage. Beware!
Beware of what?
What impression do you get looking at the homepage?
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#5This is a non-serious piece. Not a single mention of mining/resource extraction or security. As long as people are fighting over rocks, we live in a capital-driven world. Key questions are who owns the minerals in the ground and the airwaves in the sky? "Humanism" has always been an ironic euphemism for imperialism, and I suppose it still is in "the world after capital."
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#6Capital's not going anywhere. Not until the world implodes.
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#7From the FAQ: It is a work in progress. The current version is a rough draft with many problems and placeholders. I am using gitbook and github to keep track of versions of this website and the book itself. You definitely do not get that impression just looking at the homepage. Beware!
Beware of what? What impression do you get looking at the homepage?
The impression that this book is a finished product and not just a rough draft.
Re: The World After Capital
#8> One of my fundamental claims is that capital is no longer scarce. There is enough capital in the world to meet everyone's basic needs.
When was there not enough capital in the world to meet everyone's basic needs?
The 2015 estimated World GDP per capita is $16,800, or $46/day. The poverty threshold is $2 per day.
We crossed that threshold long before 1990.
Re: The World After Capital
#9The foremost claim of Karl Marx was that capitalism would eventually secede to socialism.
Most HN readers were indoctrinated to simplisticly demonize Marx despite ignorance of his nuanced academic legacy, and might overlook the glaring similarities here. They should be reminded that Marx laid these foundations ~150 years ago and offers a lifetime of critical research on this very discussion.
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#10Wikipedia defines capital as "a factor of production that is not wanted for itself but for its ability to help in producing other goods". That's the definition I learned in high school while studying Marx.
There is not an "after capital" world. To manufacture anything you need capital first. Even for software services you need software, that's also capital. So to reach a world of post-scarcity you need a lot of capital.