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Economics and commerce, all built from scratch.
The real truth about our world is all around us. In these industrial-age times there are people that measure, tabulate, and report all kinds of different things. There are two problems with this.
The first problem is that you have to ask how people made their calculations. If they have an axe to grind, you can be sure that they like the way that reinforces the opinions they already had. Orwell told us most of what we need to know here.
Say for a moment that you have a manufacturing operation in Malaysia. Since we don’t make much stuff in the USofA these busy days of a sleepless planet, it’s not unreasonable. You call them up at some bleary-eyed time to find out how it’s going:
What is anything worth? What is the real value of any thing or skill or company? A good answer is “What the market will bear”, but any examination of that phrase leaves an empty feeling in the stomach of someone trying to get what they can for whatever it is they have to sell. A better answer is, ultimately, “nothing”.
I thought I should include a link from here to a longer article on Energy Alternatives.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=29519
This is my list of the key technologies I think we need to develope to make my home of Minnesota independant of energy imports.
Big Media = Big Box.
News outlets these days are almost invariably regional. Newspapers and teevee are about the same, in that they all cover an entire “metro region” or a multi-county area. There is only one way that they can sustain this.
