The homebrew industrial revolution
by Kevin A. Carson · first published 2010
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You should read Homebrew Industrial Revolution by Kevin Carson, particularly his break down of the Industrial Revolution. Mostly the IR was driven by state actors or those who could influence them such as with the UK's Enclosure Act which forced peasants…
on “The Uninhabitable Earth” ↗This reminds me of the book by Kevin Carson titled New Homebrew Industrial Revolution. He outlines in the beginning of the book how modern economics depends on mass consumption due to our mass production systems. But if mass consumption can't be subsidized by cheaper interest rates or…
on “China factory activity shrinks to six and a half year low as orders tumble” ↗…the most ironic part; Computers and CNC tools actually destroyed the rationale for the large factory, made it possible for a garage shop to produce with the same precision as a General Motors plant ("Homebrew Industrial Revolution" book by Kevin Carson again which in my mind is not one of his most defensible but it's still interesting). I would argue that IP was the main reason that small shops didn't take over. As physical capital…
on “Socialist ends by market means: A history” ↗…Art and Ideas is 41 MB and 174 pages (US$0.0008, 240 kB/page); my copy of Boole's Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences is 19 MB and 356 pages (US$0.0004, 53 kB/page); my copy of Kevin Carson's Homebrew Industrial Revolution is 3.8 MB and 399 pages (US$0.00008, 9.5 kB/page). If you were to devote a single terabyte to books for yourself at 10 megabytes per book, you'd still have room for 100'000 books, quite a nice library…
on “LibGen's Bloat Problem” ↗