Capitalism is based on owning something absolutely in a timebox, regardless of history/future.
I suspect postcapitalism will unbundle the idea of 'asset' in time. You'll own a thread of its history rather than a timebox cut of its existence.
*cough* blockchain *cough*
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Regardless of the future? There’s this thing called inheritance. If you actually have children, that is. Too many people have chosen to be human timeboxes.
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I don't see the foundation of private property (or prices, any other bits really) going away, just more layers on top, in the way intellectual property and corporations were added, other variations on the concept can exist.
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I think this concept might be usefully analyzed within the framework of Barry Smith's "basic formal ontology."
Its most basic duality is between occurrents and continuants, meaning (roughly) temporal processes versus material objects.
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Can you speak more to this? Been wondering about ownership in this space.







