09-09-2008, 04:46 AM
My training and experience as an economist inevitably leads me to some numbers and to non-numeric reasoning about resource allocation.
A basic principle I would put up to consider, for telescopes or whatever, is the imperative of community-empowerment.
Mega-scale technology, industrial, and/or extraction ventures owned by non-resident corporations do not, in general, empower a community and many are the cases of such ventures encumbering a community.
For example: are strategic decisions made in the community? do operating profits remain in the community?
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park
A basic principle I would put up to consider, for telescopes or whatever, is the imperative of community-empowerment.
Mega-scale technology, industrial, and/or extraction ventures owned by non-resident corporations do not, in general, empower a community and many are the cases of such ventures encumbering a community.
For example: are strategic decisions made in the community? do operating profits remain in the community?
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park