<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Crowl</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:culturalengineer@gmail.com">culturalengineer@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:38 AM<br>Subject: How do the powerful get the idea that they 'deserve' more? Lessons from the... laboratory<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Of interest:</div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/03/21/how-do-the-powerful-get-the-idea-that-they-deserve-more-lessons-from-a-laboratory/" target="_blank"><b>How do the powerful get the idea that they ‘deserve’ more? Lessons from the… laboratory</b></a><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px"><br>
</span></font></div></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px">by Yanis Varoufakis</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, serif"><div style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px">
<br></div><div style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px">A quote from the piece:</div><div style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px">"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."</div>
<div style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px"><br></div><div style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px"><i>There are no perfect solutions for this ongoing dilemma... but there are approaches for handling it... and the inevitable collapse it produces..</i></div>
<div style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px"><br></div><div style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px">A broadly available and easy to use micropayment is a necessary part of changing that self-perception. <i>And niche utilities like Kachingle and Flattr won't ever be able to do it. </i>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.</div>
<div><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px"><b>The "monied Like button" - a speech-related micropayment vehicle designed especially for volume solicitations and an open ecosystem</b></span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:24.375px"><a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/the-monied-like-button-a-micropayment-vehicle-designed-for-an-open-ecosystem-rather-than-the-micropayment-used-on-closed-systems-like-googleplay-or-itunes" target="_blank">https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/the-monied-like-button-a-micropayment-vehicle-designed-for-an-open-ecosystem-rather-than-the-micropayment-used-on-closed-systems-like-googleplay-or-itunes</a></span><br>
</div></font></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><br clear="all"><div><i><b><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Tom Crowl</font></b></i><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><a href="http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com</a></div>
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