Re: Economic and politics (Was: Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions)

Don Geddis <don@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> (By the way: another huge problem with your formula is that you have
> no way to account for development costs. Say it takes Intel $1B to
> design and manufacturer a new CPU. They'll sell one of them for
> $500. But it only costs $100 to make, given marginal production
> costs and labor hours. What is the right price, in your economy,
> for the new CPU? $101? But then how do they ever make the $1B
> back? Do you see that surely you need to spread the upfront cost a
> little bit to each individual. But the problem is, that to do that
> calculation, you need to know how many you're going to sell over the
> life of the product. And nobody can predict that with reliability.
> It's a business problem with risk and unknowns. So how does your
> exciting new economy solve this problem?)

Don, Don, Don ... You're assuming that the $1B needs to be paid by one
entity. Go back and reconsider how efficiently this all runs if one
million moms and dads are told their kid ran short of money and could
they please send another $1000 because they were busy contributing to
the wealth of the world by working on their share of Intel@home.
Mom and Dad will probably think it sounds very impressive that Johnny
or Janey is able, with that cute little computer they got for Christmas,
to stand up to Intel. They'll be able to tell their friends at work
that their kid is going to one day take over the world... And all at
no real cost to the World. It's magic.
.

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