I am not so sure Sonny, most business models disregard the energetic input available to reproduce cyberspace and consumption. Advertising simply uses natural resources to promote the further use of natural resources. If natural resources are limited, and I can assure you they are, then the business model actually has no social or environmental value.… Continue reading Value III
Category: Writing
Tulips
While it may be rational motive to seek to secure personal profit, it is actually totally irrational to pay a high price for something when the value of the the thing is based on irrationalities. A tulip has no physical value other than as an ornament, can’t eat it, can’t smoke it, can’t use it… Continue reading Tulips
Theconversation II
Evening, you are of course correct that the market, in itself, is simply an efficient medium by which to exchange, the work done by increasing entropy. Money, the medium of exchange, is now digital, existing as a construct. So what will you tell your child when they ask where monies come from? Is it like… Continue reading Theconversation II
Theconversation
Evening, you are of course correct that the market in itself is simply an efficient medium by which to exchange the work done by increasing entropy. It would seem that the market democracy has already usurped actual democratic governance by enabling an unfair bias towards those that control the medium of exchange. Those, the majority,… Continue reading Theconversation
On the News
Today we were told the news As it happened And when more happened They told us the news again At the current rate of news the energy runs out quite soon A quick flash in the Pan of concern replaced by a few murders Car accidents consumed the next day And traffic troubles when Quite… Continue reading On the News
Replacement
By 2030 the EU aims to generate 27% of its energy from renewable sources. However, the renewable-energy sector in Europe is heavily reliant on hydrocarbons for the supply of raw materials critical for the development of technology such as solar cells and wind turbines. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/chinese_supply_critical_raw_materials_pose_long_term_risks_european_wind_solar_industries_494na1_en.pdf
Myth 1
Renewables are renewable using renewable energy Only by doing several (presumably fatal) experiments is it possible to know what will break the back of a camel. Is it doubtful, based on the laws of physics, whether a battery or any other renewable source can be made without a surplus supply of energy. Economics tells us… Continue reading Myth 1
Values
As capitalism slowly triumphs over all of the ethical and moral values of society it might be worth reexamining the 7 deadly sins in a new social light. Historical note: moral imperatives were thought so judicious to social cohesion that the public display of these behaviours was considered punishable by eternal damnation. Wrath- the military… Continue reading Values
To the corporate mind
Saudi Arabia is virtuous those with all the money tell the others what to do buy bombs and guns from the military industrial complex to keep the status quo With enough surplus in bombs and guns to create another war or two To the corporate mind profit Justifies war
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Let us argue with fact since my truth cannot be yours First world society is absolutely dependent on a limited supply of liquid fuel just in time is the very definition of unsustainable once it reaches a Liebig limit your facts assume this doesn't matter
Ceteris Paribus 