1. Economy is dead...
Long live Cornucopia! (introduction)
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2. The Matrix
The socio-economic reality does
not even resemble Marx’s historic
materialism (which was morose
enough) and instead of
progressing towards liberalization
of correlations between social
reality and economic forces
(accumulation of the capital) it
developed into an environment
that mutates non value. The
development of the financial
capital market and its impact on
socio-economic forces couldn’t
even begin to be described by
historic materialism, since Marx
never anticipated such a travesty.
The Matrix we ended up in sheds
a light on historic materialism as a
socio-political naiveté. Mutating
bonds, derivatives and the
rest, without any real value related
to it poses a serious threat to any
social institution and the society at
large; which wouldn’t be so
bad, however, there is a need for
system which could be
“uploaded”, after (or even before)
the social contract collapses.
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3. • Baudrillard already realized 40
or something years ago, that
Revisiting the references collapsed into
the reality they refer
to, producing the zero
Historic value, the society in utter
travesty mutating references
that have no meaning;
Materialism portrayed accurately
occurrence of socio-economic
forces and their lack of ability
(or strength) to produce value.
On the other hand, Baudrillard
shifted emphasis from the
production as fundament of
historical materialism to the
consumption thus the theory
broke away from Marxist 'labor
theory of value'; as well as he
proclaimed that the labor
power doesn’t need to
actualize as or assume socio-
economic role of labor
power, opening an ideological
chasm for the new system to
take its place. Subsequently
there is a definite need for
revisiting and deconstruction a
historic materialism: division of
labor, mass
production, competition, world
trade, value chain and such, as
a prerequisite for reaching the
new system.
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4. System is Outdated
The simple truth is: the system doesn’t
work, and economy is dead, not so much
so dead, but became a travesty, sucked in
the vortex, or better say black hole, of the
same references which lost the relation to
reality, thus there is a definite need for the
new socio-economic system.
Otherwise, we have the inevitable proof
that the crisis is good for the business of
the chosen elite, and financial
markets, and that we all willingly
participate in this conspiracy against
ourselves and the social body.
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5. Capital as an Entity
If we accept Marx’s
perception of the
capital per se as an
entity we could
state that it has a
property of a will
and that it can
break loose from
historic materialism
and even so from
the economy as
such as it could
actualized itself at
will, respectively
creating own
realities or even
cancel itself.
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6. Deconstructing
Historic
Materialism
Tesla’s idea that one doesn’t need
to produce energy but to use it
from the space (put the antenna
in the backyard and use the
energy from the universe), is
close to Baudrillard’s shift from
production to
consumption, which furthermore
opens the door to the idea of self
sustainability and paves the way
for the new system(s).
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7. Solutions
• The only viable capital is a brain capital; hence my project Mindbanking
(http://mindbanking.co) which I hope it could create a powerful force able to generate
Value, and have significant influence on financial markets as well on social reality.
Furthermore it aims to replace homo faber with homo ludens and labor replaced with
creation and rumination (thinking and problem solving) involving AI (artificial intelligence).
• Deconstruction of retrograde socio-economic infrastructure: division of labor, value-
chain, mass-production, competition, and creating a non-
competitive, collaborative, modular environment with a goal of reaching a social
OPTIMUM; abatement of the social contract with the new system ready to be “uploaded”.
• The only feasible (social) system is a (supra)system, rendering high level of
entropy, flexible to adapt to even a slightest shift, intelligent enough to adjust to any
number of variables and their interactions by itself, organically; as well as to be able for a
constant (self)upgrade, respectively able to create environments and realities.
• Instead of Economy – Cornucopia, which presupposes an abundance of resources which
are to be shared as well as the socio-economic reality being based on needs and desires
of the individual.
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8. Relation to Economy
The fundament of the economy
presupposes the product or a resource
which is rear has to have a higher
price (which of course is deliberately
misconstrued with value), which again
is a basis for the supply and demand
rigid infrastructure and mass
production. However if we perceive
the society based on the need and
desires of the individual, what is
occurring is abatement of a supply and
demand rigid infrastructure, mass
production, competition, manufactured
need and possibly a market as such.
• What we could perceive in this
equation is social forces influencing
economic infrastructure, as well as
that the process is not one way
direction, it is more like interaction, or
a mutual influencing through the
system of let’s say, fluid dynamics.
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9. Social Optimum
Financial market becomes a system of public
financing, investing in the projects, production
and development of the markets whose goal is
common good. The other system (for smaller)
projects would be peer-2-peer investments, until
the complex system of satisfying needs and
desires of the individual is not reached.
The product per se is optimal if it is reaching or
even creating first and foremost social (and
individual) advancement, also if it perpetuates
technological advancement, which again have to
serve social and individual development;
furthermore if it satisfies
geographical, ideological and other needs and
desires of the designated community or even one
individual.
Technology would in this case be one of the
important factors in the context of satisfying
needs of production using the collective
knowledge, technology, patents and the
rest, which are to become public good. Robotics
would replace labor. But most advanced thing in
this idea is to create system so complex which
would be able to fulfill the needs and desires of
one and every individual.
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10. The Production
• The first stage of the
socio-economic
development is
networked modular
producing
units/communities;
which can satisfy needs
of the designated
community.
• The next phase would
be fulfilling the needs
and desires of one
individual. Of course the
production and the
distribution costs would
skyrocket (hence the
name Cornucopia) and
immensely complex
production system would
have to be deployed. In
such a case we would
have to resort to AI
modules just to
comprehend the system
and respectively to
accomplish it.
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11. Labor would be replaced by robotic machines and AI robotic
entities. Furthermore, labor would be deconstructed as well as class
segregation (without class struggle, using complex systems). That
doesn’t mean the production would cease to exist; it means it would
be transformed into a game. Deconstruction of labor as well as the
labor power would occur as well, not that all the labor would be
Labor
replaced with the robotic power, but the deconstruction would occur
in the context or a paradigm of manufacturing just one product for a
just one individual, where one individual represents one market (or
whatever the idiom would be), bringing also the social class or a
caste system to abrogation. Furthermore the need of the community
or an individual has to be based on a Value not on manufactured
need, as there is also a need to implement the property of a quality
as a category (Aristotle). There is also a need to revisit and
deconstruct or upgrade the Aristotle’s category of quality using
complex systems.
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12. The Competition
obsolete
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13. The World Trade
If we look at the modular producing units that satisfy the
need of the given community or one individual we have
to contend the word trade is obsolete, especially
regarding mass production and its distribution laws, as
well as supply and demand infrastructure.
The formation of the price of gold (especially its rise of
around 140 % in the last 5 years), has nothing to do with
production of gold or/and its supply and demand etc.;
therefore the arbitrariness in economy (financial)
infrastructure is already a default, which respectively
calls for a complex system. Furthermore, the economy
system is rigid and slow, and paradoxically it crumples
the production, produces surplus, as well as inhibits the
development of the markets.
Under the new system the production would skyrocket, it
wouldn’t produce surplus, since the production would be
tailored for the community and/or the individual, and it
would create the system in which the Value would be a
fundamental category and there would be no place for
manufactured need, mass production, force-feeding the
market and the competition. World trade would become
peer-to-peer interaction, which would generate billions of
markets.
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14. The System
The system(s) used would be fluid
dynamics and neural
networks, which regulate itself
organically.
Modular networked systems, able
to react instantly on development
or a change of need of the
community and the market(s), as
well as to constantly adapt to the
highest human and posthuman
needs (which in this stage of
development is a need or a desire
to play, hence the homo ludens
ideal).
The social system has to be
advanced, upgraded to avoid
social adaptation, parasitism and
dictatorship of the majority.
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15. Cornucopia
The next step is to create AI modules which could
research/test and create:
• Modules which could research/test Current economy
infrastructure.
• Modules which could research/test Possibility for the
new economies and new economy infrastructure
implementation and their impact on social behavior
and the social body.
• Modules that would test networked modular producing
units.
• Modules that would create complex system
(Cornucopia) based on the needs and desires of the
community and each and every the individual.
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16. References
• Systems theory (von Foerster, 1960)
• Chaos theory (Gleick, 1991)
• Network Theory (Buchanan, 2003; Newman, Barabasi, Watts, 2006)
• Media extension of human body (McLuhan, 1964)
• Network vs. Hierarchical infrastructure (Galloway, 2002;
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2002)
• Hyperreality (Baudrillard, 1981)
• The Mirror of Production (Baudrillard, 1975)
• The Attention Economy (Davenport & Beck, 2001; Goldhaber,
• 1997; Barbrook, 1997; Berman & McClellan, 2001; Ghosh, 1997)
• Mass vs. Individual media (Kompare, 2002)
• Convergence (Forman & Saint John, 2000)
• Autopoiesis (Maturana & Varela, 1987)
• Knowledge Economy (Leadbeater, 2000)
• Gift Economy (Barbrook, 1997)
• Self-management (Petras & Veltmeyer, 2002)
• And much, much more
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17. Contact
Ana Soric / MA in Communications /
CEO @ One of Three LLC /
/ +385 91 9080666 / +385 1 6382551
/ ceo@oneofthree.biz / www.oneofthree.biz /
mindbanking.co
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