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Old 01-30-2012, 09:37 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by sbroome View Post
I can't wait to see your Star Trek world and its 45% unemployment rate in action.
I can't wait either...

Of course the future is created from the present. We have to want something before it will exist. Star trek only lightly touched on the economics of their world (at least in the television series) The books might be another matter, but I think the unemployment rate in the federation didn't really matter since they had food replicators. You could either lay around and philosophize all day or learn how to operate a starship.

The funny thing is that the food replicator is just a high tech farm inside of a box when you really think about it. Roboticized farming might be good enough in the short term. But of course someone has to build the robots, or at least build the robots that will build the robots.

We do have the technology and the systems to feed people more than they are being fed currently, and house them better, but for one reason or another the shit just ain't working like it could, inefficiencies in the marketplace? Or something else?

How does this relate to pirating ebooks?

We simply imagine the farming robot as a text, in other words the robot is the software code that someone has written. Should this someone be given license fees in perpetuity for their design? Would letting this robot only function in locales that could afford the licensing fees be fair? Or should we simply give the robot's designers a certain number of years to collect fees from the robot's use?

Certainly the designer should be remunerated? But how? Withholding the robot from those who could not afford the licensing fees seems cruel and unusual doesn't it?

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