Mirok64

Hey Peter, I have a question

You talk about zero cost or near zero cost production that seems like how many products are headed.

I believe there are many essential products already that can be produce with near zero cost and maybe are, but they aren't produced in a scale enough to interrupt the old inefficient market.

The electric car was made a long time ago, yet most cars in the world aren't electric; we have had the technology to take advantage of solar, wind, thermal energy for a long time, but most energy comes from fossil fuels; we have had for a long time the technology to automatize most labor in the world, yet the majority of people in the world does labor that can be automatize...

All of these things are already possible but won't happen because of the obvious game rules of profit and the culture of greed that won't let it happen, even if production costs goes down to almost zero cost, what would make the producer simply lower the price of the product? From what I've seen, they won't.

So do you think it's a good idea to simply wait for this products to be manufactured or produced near zero costs of production with the assumption that the producers and manufactures will lower the prices to near zero? If not, then what should we do? Do you not think that corporations will constantly prevent products from being sold near zero cost from happening?

So what you think should happen is a mass mobilization of people creating an efficient system of production outside the current system of production?

From what I see, that'll be really hard to happen on its on in reality, I can only see it happening if a dozen of millionaires get together and create the systematic structure of production, of let's say cars, solar panels, food, etc. The other way of it happening in reality is if somehow the mass populace organizes together (which I think it's extremely hard to happen) and either manage their monetary cooperation to hire specialists to construct the systematic structure of the production of the product or products chosen OR organize their skills which hopefully they, as a mass movement would have the necessary people with the necessary skills to create the production and distribution system and maintaining it. The maintenance, I think would be easy, because of the many examples of open source software that exists all because of mass cooperation, which I still think it's pretty incredible and inspiring. This last part that I described of people organizing their skills and creating the structure by themselves, while it is possible but unfortunately unlikely, it seems like it would NEED a trigger for it to happen or start to happen in a significant manner. Something that would make people finally have enough and get up, organize and do it.

Basing myself from currents events, I see even a very possible start of a violent unrest or attempts of a revolution in the next 3-4 years or even sooner in the U.S.

If you think there needs to be a trigger for this mass movement to happen and the creation of efficient production and distribution, what do you think that trigger could be? Or ought to be? Basically what do you think will be enough to make people get up and finally do it? Or do you think this mass movement can happen in reality in a different more straightforward way?

thank you Peter for answering my question