Survival in a post-scarcity economy

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begreen

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Nov 18, 2005
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Interesting and I admire him but some off the figures don't add up from what I could see. If he was doing everything from scratch that would be different.

Gary
 
Arguably arrogant to think you can outdo industry on something like a tractor, but I like it.
 
Be green
Sounds very intriguing
Like 1960s commune with geeks phd !!

Fascinating idea kind of like Linux for the manufacturing business

You might be interested in Jeremy Rifkin
Who talks a lot about
Getting off FF using Local renewable
Geothermal solar wind biomass
"The sun shines all over the wind blows in every corner of the world
And directly under our feet is geothermal"
Then collaborating using Distribted smart grid to distribute
Those electrons amongst the community

Rather than monster solar farms in Arizona
That is a top down utility to consumer model
Ideally many of us are producers
 
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