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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (327167)2/25/2007 2:19:15 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1577200
 
I mentioned the near future, not "as humanity evolves". Or do you expect that human nature will change in a large way in just a few years?

I don't have a specific timeline. Human consumption is a rather low level function. I believe eventually it will become much less important.

In any case if people cared somewhat less about personal possessions that would hardly be enough to make communism work. The subjective value of personal possessions is not the only issue that keeps communism from working.

It and private property are one of the bigger issues.

I think they will become more commoditized.

I think quite the opposite is happening. We have a higher diversity of goods, instead of having nearly identical commodities, stamped out in great number for each person.

Most everything is mass produced. There are specialty artisans who make unique things but the temptation is to mass produce once they are successful. That is particularly true of dress designers/producers. Commodization is here and I believe it will dominate our culture even more so in the future.

And even with commodities, no central planning group is likely to have or be able to have the distributed knowledge embedded in price signals.

Increased commodization reduces prices to a point where the value of most objects is reduced to very low levels. We've seen that with PCUs and other hi tech components. It tends to take value away from most products. As products have less value, owning them will not have the allure they once did.
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