Who Believes in Man Made Global Warming?

December 19, 2009 · Posted in economics, problem solving · 1 Comment 

A leader goes first and invites others to follow. What are the leaders doing? When there is an obvious serious problem people band together to solve it. They put aside their differences and tackle the problem head on. They do the most they can to fix the problem. The exact opposite is happening regarding global warming.

Basic rule of systems: If you understand the design, you can predict the effect. If it doesn’t do what you think it will do, it was designed to do something else.

Supposedly Global Warming will harm all life on the entire planet. In other words we are all supposedly in the same building and its on fire. Can you imagine people in a burning building arguing about who will pay for dinner when the building is burning to the ground? No! Everyone would get out of the building as fast as possible. Some would volunteer to help those that can’t walk. Others would try to put out the flames once they were safely outside. No one would stand around inside and watch it burn. But that is exactly what the world leaders are doing. That is very strange. Read more

Lawyers Create Scarcity

November 18, 2009 · Posted in abundance, economics · Comment 

Almost all scarcity is either artificial or limited to a time or location. Let me make it clear that there are some valid uses for solutions in law. When law is used in the wrong situation it will always create scarcity. Monday I ran into a perfect example of how lawyers create artificial scarcity.

Sunday I got a flat tire. My tires were old and worn so it was time to replace them. Fortunately I had a complete set of tires in my garage. My friend had taken a car to the scrap yard but saved the nearly new tires. The tires were a different size from what his new car used so he didn’t have a use for the tires. It was junk to him but useful for me. I put them in my garage to safely save them for when I replaced the tires on my car.

Monday I loaded the tires into my car and went to Sam’s Club to have my used tires mounted. Sam’s Club offered this service free to members. I was so happy with this service that I frequently recommended membership just because of this service. To my surprise they don’t provide that service any more. Was it because of cost cutting? No. Lawyers stopped the service because of fear of liability.

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Abundance Based Intellectual Property System

The intended purpose of intellectual property laws is to promote discovery and encourage sharing of ideas. A system that rewards great discoveries and also makes the realization of the ideas available to as many people as cheaply as possible is the ideal system. Using the concepts of Abundance that system can be achieved.

The patent and copyright system creates artificial scarcity. Its stated goal is to promote the sharing of ideas but it does not work. Its not just broken, it was wrong from the start. It assumes that good ideas are scarce and the only way to get people to share their ideas is to give them a monopoly, creating a temporary scarcity.

It’s absurd to claim information as property. If someone said they owned the number 3 and no one can use it without their permission, they would be laughed at or even locked up for being insane. The patent and copyright system grants ownership to information. That contradicts the goal of promoting discovery and sharing.

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