Patrick,
Thanks for your feedback.
Re: #1, Abundance comes from the whole (from all peers producing energy)
not from ONE peer or ONE group of peers producing so much more energy than
everyone else, i.e. dumping energy into the market for the purpose of
driving down prices and killing off competition.
I will clarify that... I assumed people know what "dumping" is and why it's
bad.
Re: #2, Again, abundance that is not sustainable is NOT abundance. The goal
is to make abundance sustainable. The missing explanation here is that the
cost of producing energy will continue to go down, and so the price of
energy will continue to go down.
I will make this clarification, too.
Thank you much for your feedback, and I hope the above clarification
answers your question in the negative, i.e. the model is designed for
sustainable abundance, not scarcity and not abundance that is not
sustainable or that leads to centralization of power in the hands of the
few.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius gmail.com>wrote:
Marc,
At
http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Social_Currency_Model#Anti-Dumping_and_Anti-Monopoly_Caps_for_Energy_Production
you say:
"'There may need to be a cap put in place on how much energy a given
party can produce so as not to allow one party or few parties to pump
so much energy into Peer Grid as to bring energy price down for all
other producers.'"
Then, at
http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Social_Currency_Model#Energy_Price_Regulation
you say (in shortened form):
"'This value of Peer Dollar is regulated relative to the value energy,
so that as energy becomes abundant its price will drop ... while
preventing speculative boom and bust cycles from making the price of
energy ... drop too low (in periods of low demand) as to make energy
production economically unfeasible.'"
Does this mean you are designing a *scarcity* based model?
There is something fundamentally wrong with a strategy that cannot
endure the *abundance* we seek.
Capitalists want prices to keep price above cost, for that is the
definition of profit, but I very much doubt that is a goal of Peer
Production or "self unfolding".
Sincerely,
Patrick
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