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In lugnet.loc.au, David Low writes:
> (assuming it's an open question...) Could you ever have a total, _total_
> competition vacuum?
I don't really think so, no. Because to have a total competition vacuum
assumes that you're talking about a company that makes boxes full of elements
and hands them to kids in a round grey room with absolutely nothing else to do.
I guess a better way to word that question would be:
Assuming LEGO is the same company they are now, but we are living in a
ludicrous communist paradise as presented in the Federation in Star Trek[1],
what kinds of sets would we be seeing? More juniorised, or less juniorised?
eric
[1]For those unfamiliar, in ST: The Next Gen., they made it pretty clear that
all residents of the Federation have access to devices called "replicators",
which basically turn energy into... well, anything you want, really, but more
specifically, any pattern that is loaded into the replicator's memory. So,
you're assuming that LEGO can put together any set they want, and encode it
into a replicator- keep in mind, the person replicating the set IS NOT paying
for it, and the people at LEGO WOULD NOT be making money from it. Their only
goal would be to make a toy that people wanted to play with, and their only
payment is use of the replicators themselves (which also make food, clothes,
etc... like I said, anything you want. The perfect communist society).
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