One of the reasons that capitalism is considered to be the best economic paradigm rather than the Commons was because of an influential paper written about half a century ago called the tragedy of the commons.
The main reason why capitalism is considered to be good is that it works in practice. It’s not about a single paper.
If you argue that efficiency of battery production isn’t important, than that corresponds to waste. Not using economies of scale to produce chips and batteries means wasting resources.
I don’t even argue that every commons problem should be solved by markets.
Having electricity priced by the market allows entrepreneurs to do things with electricity that 99% of the population consider a waste of energy. It’s enough that the entrepreneur believes that he can make a profit with investing energy that way.
If you had social rules preventing energy waste, that’s not possible. The social rules prevent the entrepreneur from doing his project. The prevent innovation that most people consider to be crazy.
SpaceX needed to get special laws passed because it couldn’t simply buy the usage rights for a public beach. At the scale at which SpaceX operates that’s okay. It’s okay for them to go to the legislators and ask them to pass a law that gives them special rights.
In a lot of cases it’s not that easy for entrepreneurs to get special usage right to a public good.
It’s okay that our society uses different paradigms to solve different issues.
I like David Ronfeld’s IN SEARCH OF HOW SOCIETIES WORK. It illustrates how we use different paradigms of markets, hierarchies, tribes and networks to solve different issues.
It’s a much better intellectual framework then to think in the Marxist terms of capitalism vs, socialism.
If I remember rightly, its estimated that around 2025 it will become the dominant construction technique.
Dr. Berokh Koshnevis, a professor of industrial and systems engineering in the university of Southern California, with support and funding from the US department of defence and NASA for creating techniques for 3D printing buildings was quoted as saying that after 20,000 years of human construction, ‘the process of constructing buildings is about to be revolutionised’
link:http://singularityhub.com/2012/08/22/3d-printers-may-someday-construct-homes-in-less-than-a-day/
It should give you all the info you asked for.
There is a different issue with construction, which Robert Heinlein pointed out 70 years ago. Basically imagine that buying a car would mean a bunch of workmen going to your site and hand assembling one there. How inefficient it would be. I.e. the issue is the lack of mass manufacturing of (obviously modular) houses from subassemblies, like every sane manufacturing process.
Of course prefabs exist but they should have became the dominant model long ago.
3D printing is another custom-assembly thing at the end. Why can’t we just prefab?
Prefabs are, correct me if I’m wrong, made using current technologies, which are more expensive than just printing off a few walls, a base and all the other stuff.
Also, the 3D printer is potentially much faster. In fact, scratch that, I am reasonably sure that it is much faster, and can, or will soon be able to, produce a similar quality product for less cost, and with less waste.
Also, I suspect that you would be able to transport these printers in one or two large trucks from some nearby construction centres, with the trucks also going back to get the feedstock.
The internet of things stands to greatly increase the efficiency of the current logistics systems in place. I mean, they’re shockingly bad. I was actually surprised by how inefficient they tend to be. And this whole paragraph is largely useless.
Prefabs are, correct me if I’m wrong, made using current technologies, which are more expensive than just printing off a few walls, a base and all the other stuff.
Current technologies can’t “just print off a few walls”. Are you comparing current-technology prefabs with future-technology 3D printing?
The main reason why capitalism is considered to be good is that it works in practice. It’s not about a single paper.
If you argue that efficiency of battery production isn’t important, than that corresponds to waste. Not using economies of scale to produce chips and batteries means wasting resources.
I don’t even argue that every commons problem should be solved by markets.
Having electricity priced by the market allows entrepreneurs to do things with electricity that 99% of the population consider a waste of energy. It’s enough that the entrepreneur believes that he can make a profit with investing energy that way.
If you had social rules preventing energy waste, that’s not possible. The social rules prevent the entrepreneur from doing his project. The prevent innovation that most people consider to be crazy.
SpaceX needed to get special laws passed because it couldn’t simply buy the usage rights for a public beach. At the scale at which SpaceX operates that’s okay. It’s okay for them to go to the legislators and ask them to pass a law that gives them special rights. In a lot of cases it’s not that easy for entrepreneurs to get special usage right to a public good.
It’s okay that our society uses different paradigms to solve different issues.
I like David Ronfeld’s IN SEARCH OF HOW SOCIETIES WORK. It illustrates how we use different paradigms of markets, hierarchies, tribes and networks to solve different issues.
It’s a much better intellectual framework then to think in the Marxist terms of capitalism vs, socialism.
Could you link to source for that estimate?
Dr. Berokh Koshnevis, a professor of industrial and systems engineering in the university of Southern California, with support and funding from the US department of defence and NASA for creating techniques for 3D printing buildings was quoted as saying that after 20,000 years of human construction, ‘the process of constructing buildings is about to be revolutionised’ link:http://singularityhub.com/2012/08/22/3d-printers-may-someday-construct-homes-in-less-than-a-day/ It should give you all the info you asked for.
There is a different issue with construction, which Robert Heinlein pointed out 70 years ago. Basically imagine that buying a car would mean a bunch of workmen going to your site and hand assembling one there. How inefficient it would be. I.e. the issue is the lack of mass manufacturing of (obviously modular) houses from subassemblies, like every sane manufacturing process.
Of course prefabs exist but they should have became the dominant model long ago.
3D printing is another custom-assembly thing at the end. Why can’t we just prefab?
Prefabs are, correct me if I’m wrong, made using current technologies, which are more expensive than just printing off a few walls, a base and all the other stuff. Also, the 3D printer is potentially much faster. In fact, scratch that, I am reasonably sure that it is much faster, and can, or will soon be able to, produce a similar quality product for less cost, and with less waste. Also, I suspect that you would be able to transport these printers in one or two large trucks from some nearby construction centres, with the trucks also going back to get the feedstock.
The internet of things stands to greatly increase the efficiency of the current logistics systems in place. I mean, they’re shockingly bad. I was actually surprised by how inefficient they tend to be. And this whole paragraph is largely useless.
Current technologies can’t “just print off a few walls”. Are you comparing current-technology prefabs with future-technology 3D printing?
Much faster than this?
Perhaps. And probably cheaper too. Also, I don’t think that was taking into account the time it took to make the parts, or the shipping times.
And yes, I am comparing current pre fab tech to 3D printing. I apologise if I wasn’t clear.