Longenecker writes: "Despite the struggles and the experimentation, the successes of the May Day planning group and the larger coalition are undeniable. A broad coalition of labor, immigrant worker justice groups, community organizations, Occupy assemblies and students has been forged. "
(image: Occupy Wall Street)
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I hope that people look at what has been learned from computer and information system science, which has much material of value (transition from hierarchical to relational databases, organization of the internet, and cloud computing, just as a few examples).
There is also work being done in collective intelligence, swarm intelligence, and similar work in both theory and practice.
Compared to what is now being done in systems and information ideas, the current political, economic and social systems are in the stone age.
When barter was the labor reward it had non-regulatory balance inherent. If you swapped coffins for necessities there were just enough coffin makers to equal the needs of other product producers output, even furniture makers could supply things to coffin makers when they needed a coffin. When too many coffin makers developed, they either went to other trades or diversified to make doors & furniture. Same in every trade & profession you got your worth for need satisfaction and adjusted to fit needs of your world.
Advent of monetary exchange has created all the disparity as some can store their income in tokens, or gold, land & other assets that grow in demand and hence capital profits for no labor output, this all leaves such a lot more room for cheats, greedy, exploiters, unfair labor reward.
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