In food cooperatives, electricity cooperatives banking cooperatives housing cooperatives, all sorts of cooperatives that are not based on a profit motive. They pool their n. Shared resources on the commons. This cooperative is a comment and theres no direct profit. For example in the United States when you go to the Grocery Store a lot of the food you get is coming from agricultural cooperatives and invest part of u. S. Electricity comes from rural electricity cooperatives. They provide 70 of electricity. Its not a profitbased system. Its wildly successful. In new york we have housing cooperatives. In europe and asia and around the world more people bank in banking coops and commercial banks and their big players. Theyre not small players. Again we are so blinded to the idea theres only the capitalist market that we dont see around us is other reality cooperatives and nonprofit organizations that are common to let me say one last thing. Economists will say the social commons is a paras
Agriculture we have to turn it around. We need to move toward organic agriculture land reform and allow people to begin to shift their Food Production from fertilizers and pesticides to more organic treatment. To big john. In europe we are doing it. In parts of asia they are beginning to move toward a more agriculturally sustainable system. We are not hearing doing it here in the u. S. In any major way. Host one of the sections of the book makes a small concession to the idea of near zero marginal cost and i was struck by that. When i think about my internet of things i never believe that what i use is free. I pay comcast hundreds of dollars per month and i pay at t hundreds of dollars per month and i pay and a number of other companies for theirdevices and software to interact with the flow of data. Nothing about the internet is free. Some of those are sunken cost but every month i write a check to comcast. Guest every time i mentioned in the book i stayed near zero. I spent a lot of
It is not 20 years away. 510 years. Already being tested in california. The question is, if we are headed toward near zero marginal cost labor what does it say about the prediction . What do we do . How do we define the human journey . Our people employed in this collaborative, and, in a zero Marginal Cost Society . In the short run i think there is a silver lining. I think that we have a 30year and tear interim where we will have to a bill that the internet of things. That is going to be laborintensive. We have to convert our entire energy use from fossil fuel and nuclear to Renewable Energy. That will require millions of jobs, thousands of new businesses. We have to transform the buildings in the world to your power plant said they can generate screen actors in the near building and it becomes our power plants. Were doing that now. We have to store all of that energy. That requires millions of jobs. We have to put in an Energy Internet, transform the entire electricity grid of the wo
Candidates. In europe we have Public Financing of elections so while the companies at the in brussels they cant write the legislation because they have to divide with other groups. The Regions National governments and ngos etc. So until we have dealt that though this whole question of Companies Buying electricity in the u. S. The u. S. Is going to continue to fall further behind. May come up with new ideas but if you are in an old Energy System and an old centralized economy based on a vertically integrated companies as possible the u. S. And canada will be secondtier countries 20 or 30 years from now. In europe we are wrestling with these issues on power. We told the Power Utility Companies they have to uncouple. They camped on the distribution because it has to act like an internet allowing everybody equal access. In europe we are now having a huge discussion about Data Security and protecting peoples privacy. We all want this internet of things that we created more collaborative wor
From the gestapo officer who is going to be the one to issue a passport you saw that were required for all of these children before they could leave vienna. I dont know about you but if i was sitting across from gestapo officer as a jew in 1939, not sure i could handle that and there is both gilbert and eleanor sitting across the desk from that gestapo officer and eleanor data is capital said in english even though he understood a little german, when the officer arrested after making sure they know that he knows they are jewish, why are you here . Gilbert said we are here to take 50 jewish children with us to america. It doesnt get any more profound than that. Eleanor came a couple weeks later and the state Department Aide pools reciting washington d. C. Back in the days you go to washington d. C. To get a passport, the aide calls for a side and says i dont have the legal authority, a woman not a jewish woman but a jewish woman going to nazi germany not a great idea. Eleanor not the gr