Maybe the CEO's of Replicators, Inc., pay royalties....
Replicators And Branded Food?
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Dusty Ayres
Commodore
The reason Nabisco has done so is because trans fat is bad for you, and there's a general drive to get them out of food. As well, there are are commercials about how pop causes you to have a bad liver just like booze does, and one by The Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario (where I live) equating the the Slinky-like device in a vending machine with the kind of device that takes out the fat from your arteries, as seen in this PSA now on local TV in Ontario:
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By the future, I think replicators will have made those above-mentioned risks a thing of the past, but also time will have got rid of things like chips and Oreo cookies.
Simple: Why should he invest his time and energy into creating a new recipe if he doesn't get control over the recipe's distribution? Why should he create something if he doesn't get to retain ownership?
I didn't even say he'd have monetary needs.
What I said was, why should he invest his time and energy in creating something if he doesn't get to control it afterwards?
Why should I create something if it's not going to be mine?
Oh no....not chips and oreo cookies.....
Well, you just did.
And what good is a recipe if it doesn't see use? It's difficult to see a miserly obsession to limit a thing's distribution as a positive thing, in general terms. Sure, the person inventing the recipe might wish to increase his social standing by making better food than others, through denying others the possibility of making that same food. But why would that be considered good? Why should the law support the "mine, mine, all mine!" spirit in principle?
Miserly desire for hogging is already built into us - we don't need laws to enforce that. Laws are supposed to hold societies together, and that generally means taking away the supposed "rights" and other privileges of the individual, so that common good is served. Why should laws in this case be differently based and aimed?
Timo Saloniemi
Right. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." -- Adam Smith
A handful of individuals may create solely for the joy of creation. For the vast majority of the human race, the primary motivation for creating, inventing, discovering, or building anything is profit and self-interest. It has ever been thus, and thus it shall ever be.
Trek TNG's vision of a socialist utopia appeals to me not in the least. Frankly, I'd rather be a Ferengi.
A "general drive"? Not in the United States, except among the nanny regulators and the food police.
Lots of things are bad for you. Maybe we should ban tobacco, sugary desserts, fatty cuts of meat, and alcohol. (Oh, wait, we tried that one already. Can anyone say "Prohibition," "speakeasy," "bathtub gin," "bootlegging" and "Al Capone"?)
If everything goes the way of Trek then there will be pizzas, just watch Voyager. I think it will all depend on what the fopod resources are in the 24th century and where they come from, by then space travel to other planets could be a reality! Just imagine. an andorian rock lizard burger with fries and some kind of insect dressing
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!!!!!!!!!!This evolution allows the exchange of 'joy of creation' for, as an example, prime real estate? (To cite something that will not stop being scarce.)
Given the medical science of the 24th century, you can most likely eat and drink just about anything that you can hold down. Bad cholesterol, transfats, breaded, deep fry, sodium rich, empty calories, a dash of MSG, hydrogenated oil, white flour and nitrates.
So Rush go ahead and have a big bowl of original recipe oreos (double stuff) and wash them down
with some vintage absinthe.
"Absi"-wha?
Ah...milk will do fine, thank you--whole, and warm....
Ah...milk will do fine, thank you--whole, and warm....
I was shocked when I learned it took Trek nearly thirty years to mention pizza. Pizza in the future, that is. There was a previous referance to pizza in Trek IV, but that was in the 20th century.
Meanwhile, do people still drink pop (or soda for you Americans)? DS9 had several referances to root beer, but is that it? No cola, as in Coke or Pepsi?
Lest someone get confused, I'm not a fan of laissez-faire capitalism, either. I'm deeply skeptical of both Capitalism and Socialism; in my view, both, if left to their most extreme and "pure" forms, tend to inhibit the rights of many people, just in different ways using different justifications.
Just as I'm skeptical of the idea that someone who has invested time and energy into the creation of something new should not retain ownership and the right to control the distribution of that new thing, for instance, I'm also deeply skeptical of the idea that he ought to be able to keep all of the resources he gains in compensation for that new thing -- I firmly believe that there is a such thing as making too much money and as having an obligation to redistribute some of your wealth to the rest of society if you profit off of society.