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Jeremy Rifkin announces the end of capitalism




by Christophe » 01/10/14, 13:04

In this evening or never: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me_YW8g8NzM

Who is Rifkin (whom we have already mentioned here and there about forums)? http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Rifkin
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by hic » 01/10/14, 13:13

Christophe wrote:In this evening or never: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me_YW8g8NzM

Who is Rifkin (whom we have already mentioned here and there about forums)? http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Rifkin


General De Gaule had announced the participation,
which was the refocusing of society towards the human.

In the former communist block, a sweeper became billionaire
collecting money redistribute to the communist representing the value of their factory;

Like what, there's one less idiot among the soviets, but not in France.
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by Grelinette » 01/10/14, 13:20

This gentleman Jeremy Rifkin is a kind of Mr. Sun of modern times, it seems! ...

I say this because this morning on France Inter (towards 8h30), a journalist made a short chronicle to present the new book of Rifkin, explaining in particular his prediction of the disappearance of capitalism, and highlighted its contradictions and absurdities of his reasoning.

The show is available as a podcast.
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by Ahmed » 01/10/14, 18:41

Jeremy Rifkin, of which I have already spoken, is a clever huckster who puts on sophisms with a communicative spirit!
His specialty, in fact, is to sell ideas that are pleasant to hear by his listeners on all sides, since he reconciles, at least apparently, the contradictions.
Contrary to what the announcement suggests, it is not a question of the end of capitalism, but of the prophecy of a cohabitation of an amended capitalism with a nebula of free access straight out of its brain (fertile marketable ideas!).
An example: it announces as a prodigious discovery that the wind and the sun are free!
Prodigious, as if oil, gas and uranium were not!

The skill of the process consists in exploiting certain tendencies that are more or less consciously in contradiction with capitalism, in order to recover them as a counterweight, with the aim of perpetuating the system by restoring its image and neutralizing the conflicting aspects.
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by moinsdewatt » 04/10/14, 14:17

For Rifkinophiles or even Rifkinopaths:

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The new society of zero marginal cost

The Internet of Things, the emergence of collaborative communals and the eclipse of capitalism

Jeremy Rifkin

Release date: 24 / 09 / 2014
ISBN : 979-10-209-0141-5
510 pages
26.00 €

After the success of The Third Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Rifkin presents here what will be the collaborative society of tomorrow. The prospectivist of genius draws a new paradigm favored by the rise of new technologies: collaborative communals.


The rules of the great game of the global economy are changing. Capitalism is dying and a new paradigm that is going to shake everything is settling down: the collaborative communals.

It's a new collaborative economy that is growing where the use-value premiums on the property - already highly implanted with car-sharing, crowfunding, AMAP, couchsurfing, contributing producers, green energy or even objects with 3D printers - provide a space where billions of people engage in the deeply social aspects of life. A space made of millions (in the literal sense of the term) of self-managed organizations that create the social capital of society. What makes them more relevant today than at any other time is that the development of the Internet of Things optimizes as ever the values ​​and principles that drive this form of institutionalized self-management.

Without even being aware of it, the Internet of Things is already ubiquitous in our daily lives. It is embodied by billions of sensors placed on natural resources, production chains, located in homes, offices and even human beings, feeding Big Data an integrated global network, a sort of global nervous system.

In parallel, capitalism, undermined by its internal logic of extreme productivity, makes the marginal cost - which is the cost of producing an additional unit of a good or a service - almost zero. If producing each of these additional units costs nothing, the product becomes almost free and the profit, the sap that makes capitalism live, is drying up. With the emergence of a vast class of "prossomateurs" - consumers become contributing producers - it is for Jeremy Rifkin, the first signs that the capitalist era of abundance in which we live comes to an end ...

Certainly, nothing is played. Capitalism tries to stifle communals by multiplying the new barriers - patenting everything from the living to the manipulation of atoms. Climate change threatens. This book is also a call to action individually and collectively.

Jeremy Rifkin shows here the strength and coherence of his thought and draws this new collaborative paradigm that will lead to a smart and sustainable society ...

http://www.editionslesliensquiliberent. ... 1-0-1.html

Well, Mr Rifkin, what do you think of the marginal cost of the last barrels of oil from tar sands in Canada or those of Total on the CLOV platform in Angola?
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by Did67 » 04/10/14, 14:35

OR, in the "collaborative" domain, of the Google and sisters model ??? (especially idiot, why sister?) absolutely necessary for this collaborative system ...

One can wonder about the margins of blablacar (I recently experimented this system and discussed with the driver of the "withholding" carried out: 7 euros for a Strasbourg-Paris of 45 euros! End of capitalism ???? C ' was generosity, at this price ????

If this is the end of capitalism, eh ben ????

Note that itself does not say end, but "eclipse": that means he is still there, but hidden !!!!!!!!!!!!

Even if it's Rifkin, stop bleating anything !!!
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by moinsdewatt » 05/10/14, 11:56

I remember that Mr Rifkin invoiced 350 000 € for his consulting services in the Nord Pas de Calais region.
(read in the Nouvel Observateur)

It was certainly a friend prize for the new collaborative economy.
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by Ahmed » 05/10/14, 12:49

It was certainly a friend's prize for the new collaborative economy.

No! It was a reflection of his conception of "zero marginal cost"!
And again, its delivery is virtual, as for the application in the real world ...
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by Obamot » 05/10/14, 22:25

Bein it's normal, if we want to go down, eclipsing capitalism ...
will inevitably go through the zero level, unavoidable Image

Nothing, I'm going out ...
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by sen-no-sen » 05/10/14, 23:00

Do not be fooledJ. Rifkin is an "agent" of the system, its role is to promote a new update to the dominant ideology whose flaws are starting to become far too visible.

Those in power have long understood that the current model can no longer hold, a change of "software" will therefore have to take place,J. Rifkin only highlights this change, however the backdrop remains the same: economic "exponentialism".
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