{"id":2619,"date":"2002-07-24T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2002-07-24T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2002-07-24T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2002-07-24T13:52:29","slug":"kevin-raybauld-asks-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Raybauld asks (in the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leanleft.com\" target=\"browser\">Kevin Raybauld<\/a> asks (in the comments below):<br \/>\n<i>I guess I am just not sure why information qualifies as a different category. Like I said, to me, it seems to fit the category of a natural resource, at least in behavior. How is information different than say, steel? In the 19th century, one could have argued that control and manipulation of steel was just as important to economic success as information is today.<\/i><br \/>\nKevin, steel <u>is<\/u> information &#8211; the information on how to make steel, plus the natural resources (iron ore, coal) plus the labor needed. It&#8217;s all one unified process, distinguished only by the way we try and analyze it (candle flame: chemical process or physics problem?).<br \/>\nI argued below that Marx screwed up because he divided everything into two categories: labor and capital (land and frozen labor). I&#8217;ll argue there is a third category, information, and that the history of modernity is in part the trumph of the information-wranglers (think clerks, bankers, engineers and scientists) over the landowners and the laborers.<br \/>\nOf course the wranglers are themselves laborers&#8230;so the analysis gets kinda complex.<br \/>\nBut to quote Dante (the clerk, not the poet) &#8220;I&#8217;m not even suppsed to <u>be<\/u> here today&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nBack to looking for projects&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Raybauld asks (in the comments below): I guess I am just not sure why information qualifies as a different category. Like I said, to me, it seems to fit the category of a natural resource, at least in behavior. How is information different than say, steel? In the 19th century, one could have argued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}