Dear Callmeray,
First, this is an international site, so if you'r so called "using",
you're using the global capitalist system.
You're statement derives several questions.
First, you claim to have a lot of knowledge, therefore the question
arrises of why you may need to ask others, as one that knows much.
This is a philosophical question that leads us to another one: How do
you know you know a lot? After all, that knowledge depends on your
primary knowledge - it's a catch 22.
You may try to enroll as a Google-Researcher, if you know that much,
since this knowledge might benefit others. Of course, that won't be
"using the system". It would be selling your knowledge and experience
to people who might otherwise spend time they can't afford looking for
the answer. In that aspect, it's a good idea for a retired person, as
long as you remember that your Internet - if not DSL - costs money
too. I suggest you'll address any other questions you might have about
being a google researcher to the staff at google answers (this is
their FAQ: https://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html), since they
can answer that in a less philosophical and more stright forward way.
Getting back to your claim of testing the American capitalist system,
it is well based that this site and many as such are being used by
users from around the world. Hence, you are using the opportunities
offered by the global system. Globalization can play in many ways:
some try to portray it as a process in which global multi-nationals
are taking over. It may be true that this is part of the process, but
more importantly this process breaks borders between people and users
from different countries in more than one level - and this level - of
providing answers to a British user - is included.
This is also a philosophical problem - can we sell our knowledge? Is
money worth knowledge? How can you rate or put a price on knowledge?
First, we are not selling knowledge - we are selling, if any, an
answer, the time it took to find the information.
Is selling our knowledge an essential part of the Capitalist system?
Or otherwise, if not selling knowledge, but supposedly spreading it
for free, doesn't it leave a space only for the Hegemonical powers by
the end?
One can claim that some "boss" in google.com is enjoying the fruits of
my work, while providing "only" the technological basis. However, the
fact that I am a "freelancer" so to speak, using the techniological
basis to get money, means that I control the means of production - not
anyone else, except maybe what google takes - I decide how much I work
and for what pay to answer stupid questions. Marx dream, of us workers
controlling the means of production is coming true is google answers
(or something like that, I don't want George Bush to close google as a
communist business :-).
As for the question of how much you should take - how how long you
should spend on an answer. I suggest you'll read this:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/googleresearchers/
Each person have their own preferrences. Some say they;ll take only
expensive answers. Others say they'll take only things they'll know
for sure. You can also see my opinion there.
Politicalguru-ga |
