what do you think?

[Peter Korsten]

Joost Schuttelaar schreef:

> http://rushkoff.com/2009/11/21/radical-abundance/ (15 mins)
> 
> On 'open source' P2P currencies. Made me think.

It's always funny seeing an American non-historian talk about European 
history.

Anyway, I'm not much of an economist, but I do know enough of the 
subject to realise that this guy is talking about of his arse.

Conspiracy theory ("no, it's not a conspiracy") mixed with some 
left-wing ideas about economy, and a complete disassociation with the 
fact that quite a substantial part of the human population lives in 
poverty. How is somebody in Ethiopia, starving to death because the 
crops failed again, going to benefit from this?

Then we get the old argument that the anti-copyright sentiment leads to 
more copying. Ah yes, sure. "The abundance of genuine creative output is 
declining." I mean... WTF is he on?

In short, money has existed for millennia. Every so often somebody comes 
along and says: "We've been doing it all wrong for all those thousands 
of years!"

I'm a great believer in evolution. If money were that flawed, it would 
have disappeared by now.

- Peter