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Trading
labor instead of
objects would be more
efficient if
access to
capital were not stifled by
profit.
It'
s not that
trade shouldn't be
free, it'
s that
productive
sources are hoarded to
collect
usury.
Fair
Trade
sounds nice, but is it
really? What of the minimum
wage and
Labor Unions? Would your
goal on an is
land be the
protection of
work (the continuation of toil), or would it be to minimize that
cost?
If the
difference between an
object
consumer'
s price and the
cost in
curred by the
source
owners during the previous round of
production was understood to be an in
vestment from that
consumer, then
profit would be both
real growth and a continuous
distribution of
control.
As
object
consumers become
source
owners, the dangerous insanity of
artifical
scarcity and the absurd
ideal of never-ending
employment can be safely reversed to reorient ourselves with the
natural course of a
bundance and leisure.
Workers would be hired to
create
permanent
solutions, and
currency would be de
signed to ease specialization.
"'Here are two simple principles, both of which are self-evident: I. -- That all men have equal rights to the use and enjoyment of the elements provided by Nature. II. -- That each man has an exclusive right to the use and enjoyment of what is produced by his own labor'" -- "
Protection or
Free Trade"
p. 280 Henry George
I dis
agree with
part II of this quote because it appears to be the
common de
scription of
Capital that gives
Capitalists a moral claim to keep
consumers in perpetual
dependence.
Nature is
cyclic. All
things are the
Product of all the previous
states of that
matter plus all
actions applied to it by
Nature and Humans up to that
time.
Capital is said to be any
thing that is not
land and is some
times called "
stored
Labor" because it is
land that has been
changed by
labor.
Capital might also be thought of an '
instance' of
land.
Products are the
output of
labor applied to
land and
capital.
Capital is also said to be the transformation of
land and
capital by
labor. This
means capital is simply
land transformed.
All
things are an
object
(output of production) at one
time, and the
source of
production at some another
time.
Casts.seul.org "'Designing a parallel trading system'"
IPFrontline.com/depts/article.asp?id=10139&deptid=6
"'Negotiators Adopt Singapore Treaty
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
by: WIPO Press Release
A new international treaty on trademarks, to be known as the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks in recognition of the country that hosted the final round of negotiations, was adopted on March 28, 2006 by member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The new treaty concludes efforts by WIPO's member states to update the 1994 Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) and bring it in line with the technological developments of the past decade.
'"