---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Crowl <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:38 AM Subject: How do the powerful get the idea that they 'deserve' more? Lessons from the... laboratory To: Of interest: *How do the powerful get the idea that they 'deserve' more? Lessons from the... laboratory*<http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/03/21/how-do-the-powerful-get-the-idea-that-they-deserve-more-lessons-from-a-laboratory/> by Yanis Varoufakis A quote from the piece: "The explanation of how real power evolves, and what makes it sustainable, is to be found in the mind, and the beliefs, of the majority of the disadvantaged who succumb to the ideological belief that they are entitled to less than the advantaged." *There are no perfect solutions for this ongoing dilemma... but there are approaches for handling it... and the inevitable collapse it produces..* A broadly available and easy to use micropayment is a necessary part of changing that self-perception. *And niche utilities like Kachingle and Flattr won't ever be able to do it. *This is an industry wide responsibility easily fulfilled but requiring the participation of both the Internet and banking sectors.... both of whom seem to have little vision or sense of their necessary roles.... or any interest in hearing about it. I'd like them to re-think this self-satisfied non-involvement. *The "monied Like button" - a speech-related micropayment vehicle designed especially for volume solicitations and an open ecosystem* https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/the-monied-like-but... Regards, *Tom Crowl* http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/