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6. Not sure I understand your reasoning

Thu Jul 23, 2015, 10:43 AM

Jul 2015

to me, actively growing the apple is the first step toward DISintermediation, i.e., you are removing intermediaries.

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Humankind is at a fork in the road [View all] FlatBaroque Jul 2015 OP

I wish I'd come across more of your writing over those years, then. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #1

Erich, the next financial collapse, which in my estimation FlatBaroque Jul 2015 #3

Only vaguely. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #5

here's one story about Portland. FlatBaroque Jul 2015 #11

The human race has been at the "fork in the road" since ladjf Jul 2015 #2

Actively growing the apple is the first step toward intermediation The2ndWheel Jul 2015 #4

Not sure I understand your reasoning FlatBaroque Jul 2015 #6

Actively growing the apple requires control of the tree The2ndWheel Jul 2015 #7

It makes more sense for me to just buy the apples. Throd Jul 2015 #8

"we no longer know how to care for ourselves. " dixiegrrrrl Jul 2015 #10

Thanks for the post. jalan48 Jul 2015 #12

The question I have with that would be The2ndWheel Jul 2015 #13

Perhaps corporations need to become more subserviant to governments. jalan48 Jul 2015 #14