Web 2.0 Expo NY 09: Douglas Rushkoff, "Radical Abundance: How We Get Past "Free"...

Douglas Rushkoff (Author, "Life Inc."),
"Radical Abundance: How We Get Past "Free" and Learn to Exchange Value Again" English and Dutch captions by Martien van Steenbergen.

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[ourearthhome]

Yes, money as currently configured is a scheme for the few to extract wealth from everyone else without actually having to do or produce anything new of value. But it is only half the story. Monopoly owners of land and natural resources obtain and receive a wholly unearned income by charging the rest of us for access to our own planet. Every thing we do for free increases land value and we all then have to pay more for access. This is why free/open source doesn't yet work in theory or practice.

[cense13]

... "cash flow of the soul" ... that's noble and I like it.

However, on planet earth, the material dimension is our common base and trade secures that base so that souls can reach for the next step.

The destructive mess we're all in depends big time on our parasitic money system and the corporate rule that both congenially suck the liveblood from humanity.

The beneficiaries secure their freedom by making sure that nothing else is free but them. It has to be ended by dissent and noncompliance.

[felipealvarez1982]

bitcoin

[Clownspike77]

I'm not sure about the new way they go about burying individual comments with a profound respect for quarreling people.

When it is gone, it is gone. I love the ability to write whatever I want to, and it really doesn't effect very much in my real life. So "what he did" is in place of a "world compromising" positive life. I don't think they'd care.

[RalfLippold]

Thanks @CasRose10 for sharing with us!!! Time of Change. cc @maverickwoman

[Clownspike77]

@8legsFreak Be more specific.

[8legsFreak]

80% of his speech is pure brilliance. Unfortunately his rant about CC and open source is not only based on bias and lies, but also simply undermines his own point about p2p. Doug, make up your mind.

[vlogwrap]

Ever heard of Bitcoin? uhhhhhh Duh. It's already here. I can' t BELIEVE he doesn't know about? / never heard of? BitcoinMe dot  com

[ChannelNumberKyle]

@1776Matthew My question makes perfect sense, as It is a pretty true statement to say that religions go about trying to destroy, smash, hide, or otherwise make unavailable the beliefs, teachings, and writings of religions that are not their own. Less so in modern times, but historically this is very much true.

[1776Matthew]

@ChannelNumberKyle How is his narcissistic, jewish supremacist fantasy of "smashing" other religions, cultures, and nations "incorrect"?

First of all, your question doesn't even make sense. He's making a baseless, megalomaniacal assertion. There is no "correct" or "incorrect" to it. Only madness and stupidity, and apparently no small degree of massochism, considering the response that is coming his way.