07-19-2017, 02:04 PM
(07-19-2017, 01:25 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(07-18-2017, 11:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Do you think those internet crowd approaches eliminate the need for taxes, government social programs, safety nets and regulations which the right-wing calls "socialism" and is the bone of left-right contention in our politics today?
No.
Ultimately they may reduce or eliminate what we now consider to be normal Capitalism as well as aspects of other competing systems.
They do provide an alternate structure and perspective. A lot of the Agricultural and Industrial Age was pyramid or hierarchical, with kings, presidents, CEO or dictators on top. Croudsourcing, etc... provide a means for little folk to network through computers, to work together without giving control necessarily to some guy on top. He wouldn't necessarily be able to claim a piece of the action and contol.
It is hardly enough, not what we have seen to date. It is possible the perspective might take us further than one would think. However, it would only be part of the solution.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.