ABSTRACT
The technology is at hand to educate a population for as little as 5 to 15 percent of what is considered normal today. Restructuring in the developed world is prevented because information is monopolized by the financial power of the three primary monopolies, land, technology, and finance capital. Communication is considered cheap. Yet it is possible to make long-distance contacts for a fraction of current costs. The American public paid for satellite development, and corporate ownership of this technology is corporate socialism at its best. Shopping requires information and middlemen are primarily in the information business. Buyers would, at their leisure, study engineering specifications and styling on their television or computer. The markup on perishable groceries is about 100 percent while the markup on small nonperishable consumer durables is several hundred percent. Shopping is recreation for many people and a status symbol for others.
