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Re:After Capitalism? by Turing_Machine on Saturday December 12, 2015 @09:27AM (#10722838)
"our creative endeavours have never produced anywhere near the amount of capital the resource sector has..."

http://www.forbes.com/global2000/

Only four of the top 20 could reasonably be described as "resource" companies (oil companies, in every case).

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Re:After Capitalism? by 1stop on Sunday December 13, 2015 @04:08AM (#10725841)
Are you suggesting banks are creative endeavours? I like the connotation.
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Re:After Capitalism? by Turing_Machine on Monday December 14, 2015 @01:15AM (#10729669)
Certainly. A bank is just a collection of ideas. It's a bunch of magnetic domains on hard disks that get reconfigured based on a set of rules.

It certainly isn't a natural resource like oil or iron ore.

What would you call it?

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Re:After Capitalism? by ectoplasm on Monday December 14, 2015 @01:41AM (#10729716)
Your mind (the rational part) is just a collection of ideas. One of them is called oil.
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