(soon)
2/27/2004 7:47 AM
The path
forward
On the design
of micro-farm ecosystem
Comments from someone
I
am fully aware of the inhibitions on capital formation, I have encountered them
many times, even to this day, I struggle with the same issue.
To overcome it, I must sometimes take measures
that distract me and delay my perceived goals, for example,
on various occasions have had to take time from my research
and development work to take on building design commissions for
clients.
This spring, in order to have more cash
flow to launch the SOS initiative, I will be manufacturing fiberglass
kayaks, yakanoes, small houseboats and possibly building a few log cabins
to rent to assure continued supplementary income. In this way I can be
assured of not having to depend on the good will of others.
I have found that a scarce commodity in these times
I can only thank god that I had the foresight to pay off all that I
own and never fall prey to that seductress..... credit .
We understand your feeling about credit.
We suggest that the mechanism of credit is only one of the many mechanisms that draw people into a system of economics where business rules over both government and individual people through a systemic and subtle (hidden) distortion of facts.
We suggest that there may not be anything intrinsically negative about credit itself, as acquiring credit can be a type of capitalization process. Capitalization is also something that is not positive or negative except in a specific social context, and then even there sometimes to natures of the process is more determined by the environment in which credit of capitalization occurs.
There is no question in our mind that capital formation processes that were available during the time of, of in the context of, industrial capitalism are only now available to individuals involved in aggregating property for the purpose of expressing monopoly control over entire sectors of the economy as a viable business model.
The practice might be unconstitutional in the sense that the provisions in the Constitution, from which copyright and patent laws are derive, are in fact being subverted by micro-scale monopoly practices unregulated by the Federal government. This actions then break down other rights such as the individual right to pursue happiness.
The effect of patent protections has become functionally one of inhibition of the rights of the individual innovator. For example, no one who is not using a business model that first captures all patent ownership in biotechnology will get funding form venture capitalism.
“Intellectual Property Rights: Intellectual property issues create barriers
to developing new market opportunities because patens are too broad, inhibiting
innovation and entry of other similar developments. In addition, areas that cannot be protected are not as readily
developed, such as nutraceuticals, where many substances are widely available. Industry does not want to expend dollars or
human resources on development of products that cannot be effectively protected
from competition, regardless of the benefits to the public.” National Agricultural Biotechnology
Council, (1995)
The question that is perhaps deeper than that about capital formation is the one that I would like to ask you about.
This question goes to freeing individuals from the slavery of individuals imposed imperial capitalism (as defined in William Greider’s book, The Soul of Capitalism, Opening Paths to a Moral Economy (2003). The argument is made that a new type of capitalism will evolve from the current practices.
Unlike socialist theories, this new capitalism is firmly grounded in the notion of private ownership, but the knowledge sciences brings both knowledge of consequences and an instrument for enforcing crisp regulations designed to effect responsibility.
To illustrate the principle of responsibility, this enforcement of responsibilities would apply equally to
a) software companies making profits on advertising while providing the means to share copyrighted entertainment materials and
b) manufacturing companies making profits from producing weapons designed to kill other humans
How one determines legitimate responsibilities is then a matter of knowledge about processes and consequences.
This is why we are calling, as a first step moving the American society towards a ecological capitalism for a National Project: