Talk:Biocapitalism

I'd like to bring the conversation up, so we are all on the same page. Assumptions:

Gold is money. It's an accounting mechanism. Finite and difficult to fake. So, some of gold's value derives from the labor it takes to mine it. That equates to slavery.

Greenwich/London/England created standards, including physics, equating labor to money. Energy to money. Energy to labor. Food to money. How many calories to mine the gold?

Money is partially a construct for the balance of payments between countries. The ruler of a country frequently uses money to leverage the population's labor. Currency design is key to that leverage.

Example: The USA. Although originally a gold-back dollar, since 1913, it has been labor-backed via income taxes/bonds.

So, is much of the discussion on biocapitalism, a rationalization for slavery? Past and present?

--Andrewbb (talk) 22:54, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the insights! --MIchel Bauwens (talk) 09:15, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Suggested edits:

The link to ephemera.org is no longer valid.

Link to the original paper on Biocapitalism: http://environmentsandsocieties.ucdavis.edu/files/2015/02/Dawson_Biocapitalism-Culture.pdf

Thank you, updated! --MIchel Bauwens (talk) 09:17, 8 January 2021 (UTC)