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• SuperGreek

  Mar 7, 2010 at 11:26 am

  

  @Mr Holipsism
  uhm, AVATAR…. go here!!!
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• SuperGreek

  Mar 7, 2010 at 11:29 am

  

  @Mr Holipsism.
  or here!!!
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• The Man from Glad

  Mar 7, 2010 at 1:12 pm

  

  @stacyherbert

  ‘This shows the ending of the era of scarcity here in North America.’

  http://www.technocracy-think-tank.org/addenda.htm#graph0

  Technocracy makes a good point about how there’s more than enough food than people can eat, more than enough clothes than they can wear, etc. If falls down when it comes to savings. The energy credits advocated expire. Kind of like food stamps, I think. No motivation to accumulate capital.

  Nonetheless, technoracy is notable for trying to introduce engineering methods, and in particular energy accounting, into macroeconomics. Steve keen is moving in a generally similar direction. It would be very interesting to see Max interview a representative of Technocracy, Inc.
• The Man from Glad

  Mar 7, 2010 at 1:19 pm

  

  Technocrats Survive, Offer Ideas For ’90S

  http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900220&slug=1057116
• The Man from Glad

  Mar 7, 2010 at 1:24 pm

  

  Technocracy, Inc.

  http://www.technocracy.org/
• Chris

  Mar 7, 2010 at 3:33 pm

  

  Max,
  I remember Mod Squad, Ironsides, and those other 70′s dramas.
  Used to watch them in reruns.

  All, “a Quinn Martin Production”
• david

  Mar 7, 2010 at 6:54 pm

  

  Could never figure out Ironside, couldn’t the criminals just have pushed the chair over, run across grass, somewhat flawed, now on the other hand ye had McCloud, any trouble that horse’d stamp yer arse, couldn’t out run him, the only way ye’d get McClouds horse is with marbles, but when do criminals carry bags of marbles with them on the off chance they get pursued by cowboy cop on hoseback.
• joanne

  Mar 7, 2010 at 11:34 pm

  

  I have US health care through my job and it’s pretty good. We don’t have to call the insurance company all the time, ,just some of the time. Plus, my employer covers all the premiums while I have a $2500 deductible. Much better than what I bought when self-employed.

  However, I GUARANTEE that even if we go to universal health care here in the US, it will be the worst bureaucratic nightmare ever.

  . I”m a nurse and the Medicare rules and regulations are stupid, bloated, ludicrous and every day a total waste of my time. They will probably be the model for a larger system, if we go there. Watch out below. We will drown in
  inane paperwork, emphasis on drown and inane. Regards.
• Mr. Holipsism

  Mar 8, 2010 at 6:15 am

  

  Thank you, SuperGreek!
• TRT

  Mar 8, 2010 at 8:35 am

  

  thanks…started looking up mod squad and found one of MY favorites…The Man from U.N.C.L.E….U.N.C.L.E.’s archenemy was a vast organization known as THRUSH…Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity, “THRUSH believes in the two-party system: the masters and the slaves.” …wow the times havent changed much in 50 years after all…or 150…