Re: profit and Scarcity Jim Glass ; JF ; GLASS ; x586-0375 ; (yqg023@sunshine.rockwell.com)
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12 Jan 1995 22:01:36 -0500

In article <3ei2bi$g9b@planchet.rutgers.edu>, tmcintyr@pgh.net (Terry McIntrye) writes:
|> Ian Taylor (Ian_Taylor@a2w.maus.de) wrote:
|> : Peter Westlake (peter@harlequin.co.uk) wrote on 21.12.94:

|> : [Re: Implicatations of a nanotech based economy]

In a world where "full" nanotech is available to everyone, there will be only three things of value:

(1) Land (i.e., territory);
(2) Energy;
(3) Human capital, i.e., people.

Land and energy will still have prices; mere bulk (atoms) will not. As usual, people will attempt to gain power over other people by fair means or foul. Pretty much just like now.

Jim Glass