Greetings good citizen, in keeping with my single word titling agenda I borrow this manufacturing term that also has an allegory in the Art world.
In this case my intended topic/target is what I normally refer to as 'Happy Talk', the blithe dismissal of the CONSEQUENCES engendered by the poorly thought out strategies executed by the 'more for me' crowd.
In particular, I whip a familiar hobby horse of mine, A.I.
To achieve 'Next Level' automation, industry needs A.I. and the 'cost' of A.I. will be measured in the 'savings' equivocated by the number of 'man hours' they eliminate. [Why do the impossibly dense keep missing the fact that man hours are HOW your customers afford your products?]
There are two serious 'mis-calculations' in play here. The first is the 'purpose of commerce'. If you customer base doesn't have the wherewithal to purchase your products you no longer have a market for your product. The second is the flip side of the same phenomenon, your robots have zero use for the products they produce. You might as well be burning whatever your inputs are because the UNEMPLOYED CAN'T AFFORD them.
How stupid are the people running things? [This question zooms up and down both sides of the equation.]
If your customer base is TINY then your costs must be tiny too [albeit all 'money' is funny so were still talking 'free' here if we cut the BS.]
So in this respect we circle back to the beginning of the equation and we find our 'customer base' has few needs but a ton of 'wants' and we are using 'money' to keep a lid on the 'flightier' desires of our not particularly sophisticated customers.
Everybody WANTS a unicorn that grants wishes AND shits money but such a beast would probably eat you before you got to the store and learned that your money bore the portrait of Zeus instead of the traditional 'Dead President'.
These delusions don't stop at the never ending 'free ride' [which, believe it or not, we currently have a whole cadre of people born to exactly that!]
Now we are bumping up against 'carrying capacity' issues. How many (do nothing) trust fund babies can the economy accommodate?
The answer, ironically enough, is the same if we were to ask how many gods can co-exist on the same planet.
Some of you are thinking 'one' when the actual answer is less than that.
But I digress...somewhat. [The, er, 'insanity' that is god (see unicorn above) is the same kind of thinking that produced money.]
Either we survive 'as one' or we tear what passes for civilization apart [rinse and repeat] forever and ever amen.
Most of you come by your madness the organic way, you were raised with your 'beliefs' and think life (as it was explained to you, never mind all of those things your patient mentor couldn't answer) is the way it ought to be.
Everything is set up to re-enforce that belief.
Too bad it is so flimsy...and the only thing holding it together is 'faith'.
Others before me have lamented "how fortunate for the leaders of this world that their followers DON'T THINK!" This 'herd mentality' is not only omnipresent but it has led us to ruin more than once.
This leads to a curious question: does this 'shortage of thinking parts' lead to our sorry circumstances?
[Naturally, research into this phenomenon is prohibited, stupid is the way they like 'em!]
Herd behavior resulted in the housing bust of '07 and the 'condo craze, the gold rush and the holocaust for that matter.
You don't suppose our 'better self' is repressed by all of the 'God's Will' mumbo-jumbo, do you?
You 'sit back and watch' while others suffer because you have been convinced it's 'not your job/place' to interfere. [Especially when 'officialdom' is behind the mayhem.]
Now how would you answer the question of 'how many gods is too many?'
'God's will' is whatever they tell you it is. How pathetic that you just sit there and nod in agreement.
Today's parting thought runs along the line of what must be running through the back of your mind right now. Is there a 'remedy' for this (self-serving insanity) or, if you're near the end of this shitshow like I am, your new 'mantra' runs along the line of 'Hope I like my next life better!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
In this case my intended topic/target is what I normally refer to as 'Happy Talk', the blithe dismissal of the CONSEQUENCES engendered by the poorly thought out strategies executed by the 'more for me' crowd.
In particular, I whip a familiar hobby horse of mine, A.I.
To achieve 'Next Level' automation, industry needs A.I. and the 'cost' of A.I. will be measured in the 'savings' equivocated by the number of 'man hours' they eliminate. [Why do the impossibly dense keep missing the fact that man hours are HOW your customers afford your products?]
There are two serious 'mis-calculations' in play here. The first is the 'purpose of commerce'. If you customer base doesn't have the wherewithal to purchase your products you no longer have a market for your product. The second is the flip side of the same phenomenon, your robots have zero use for the products they produce. You might as well be burning whatever your inputs are because the UNEMPLOYED CAN'T AFFORD them.
How stupid are the people running things? [This question zooms up and down both sides of the equation.]
If your customer base is TINY then your costs must be tiny too [albeit all 'money' is funny so were still talking 'free' here if we cut the BS.]
So in this respect we circle back to the beginning of the equation and we find our 'customer base' has few needs but a ton of 'wants' and we are using 'money' to keep a lid on the 'flightier' desires of our not particularly sophisticated customers.
Everybody WANTS a unicorn that grants wishes AND shits money but such a beast would probably eat you before you got to the store and learned that your money bore the portrait of Zeus instead of the traditional 'Dead President'.
These delusions don't stop at the never ending 'free ride' [which, believe it or not, we currently have a whole cadre of people born to exactly that!]
Now we are bumping up against 'carrying capacity' issues. How many (do nothing) trust fund babies can the economy accommodate?
The answer, ironically enough, is the same if we were to ask how many gods can co-exist on the same planet.
Some of you are thinking 'one' when the actual answer is less than that.
But I digress...somewhat. [The, er, 'insanity' that is god (see unicorn above) is the same kind of thinking that produced money.]
Either we survive 'as one' or we tear what passes for civilization apart [rinse and repeat] forever and ever amen.
Most of you come by your madness the organic way, you were raised with your 'beliefs' and think life (as it was explained to you, never mind all of those things your patient mentor couldn't answer) is the way it ought to be.
Everything is set up to re-enforce that belief.
Too bad it is so flimsy...and the only thing holding it together is 'faith'.
Others before me have lamented "how fortunate for the leaders of this world that their followers DON'T THINK!" This 'herd mentality' is not only omnipresent but it has led us to ruin more than once.
This leads to a curious question: does this 'shortage of thinking parts' lead to our sorry circumstances?
[Naturally, research into this phenomenon is prohibited, stupid is the way they like 'em!]
Herd behavior resulted in the housing bust of '07 and the 'condo craze, the gold rush and the holocaust for that matter.
You don't suppose our 'better self' is repressed by all of the 'God's Will' mumbo-jumbo, do you?
You 'sit back and watch' while others suffer because you have been convinced it's 'not your job/place' to interfere. [Especially when 'officialdom' is behind the mayhem.]
Now how would you answer the question of 'how many gods is too many?'
'God's will' is whatever they tell you it is. How pathetic that you just sit there and nod in agreement.
Today's parting thought runs along the line of what must be running through the back of your mind right now. Is there a 'remedy' for this (self-serving insanity) or, if you're near the end of this shitshow like I am, your new 'mantra' runs along the line of 'Hope I like my next life better!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
No comments:
Post a Comment
If you can't stay on topic then don't say anything...