Comments on: Book of the Day : Who Owns the Future by Jaron Lanier https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-who-owns-the-future-by-jaron-lanier/2013/10/22 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 09 Mar 2014 22:59:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Karl https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-who-owns-the-future-by-jaron-lanier/2013/10/22/comment-page-1#comment-651923 Sun, 09 Mar 2014 22:59:59 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33667#comment-651923 Tim Worstall has written a few pieces about this book:

Jaron Lanier’s war on unlicensed horse massaging

Jaron Lanier’s Absurd Plan To Turn The US Into Greece

]]> By: Karl https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-who-owns-the-future-by-jaron-lanier/2013/10/22/comment-page-1#comment-556205 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 06:50:42 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33667#comment-556205 Yeah, the derp is strong in that one. Lanier sounds like that psycho Peter Brabeck who insists that people can’t value things like water unless they are forced to pay for it.

mindless accounting
superstitious consciousness
hierarchy persists

]]> By: Kevin Carson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-who-owns-the-future-by-jaron-lanier/2013/10/22/comment-page-1#comment-555926 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:10:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33667#comment-555926 So apparently the ideal is for everyone to get paid for everything we do, so we all have more money. Those cottagers living off the commons were much better off after their source of subsistence was enclosed, because they were forced to engage in waged agricultural labor to have the money to pay rent for the portion of earth they lived on. So why not be REALLY prosperous? Let’s enclose every single thing we do as a source of revenue, so that our entire range of activity is monetized — the husband is paid to mow the lawn, so he will have the money to pay his wife to do the dishes. Then we can have a $1 quadrillion GDP! After all, what matters is not our material level of comfort, but its exchange value, right?

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