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The2ndWheel

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7. Actively growing the apple requires control of the tree

Thu Jul 23, 2015, 10:57 AM

Jul 2015

That's going to result in some sort of agricultural/farming activity. Who's not going to want to control the number of apples available to them? That farming will free up time for people to specialize in other non-apple related skills. That specialization will eventually lead to a globalized economy, if the required energy is available to maintain it, where intermediation is what makes the system function.

You can pick the apple off the tree and eat it. If you control the tree though, then you control who gets the apples.

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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

On this subject an a sort of general sense: "The end of capitalism has begun" corkhead Jul 2015 #9

"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

It seems to me our current international economy is incredibly fragile. hunter Jul 2015 #15