Is money a product?
! Preposterous! Next question.
No, no let’s go back, I want answer.
Hmm… Do we have a definition? Clean, unbend, principal definition? Yes! Product is the “result of an act or process”. Now how do we quantify “result”? Using money obviously. So money, the product is quantified by money. I hope it is not just me to see the problem here. Everything that surrounds us works on some kind of feedback (economy, sociology, politics, biology, physics…). Money is no exception and treated as a product is short-circuiting the vital and all-present principal of feedback. What makes it worse is that all the aspects of our material presence is interwoven by money.
Few “in plain sight” examples of the problem; Oil is obviously running our energy hungry economy. Last year we saw price of this vital resource changing by 400% in a half a year! Such abrupt price shifts could only be generated by manipulations at the source-code level. More recent example; Banks that received bail-out riches from us – most profitable now – they just returned the money!
Let’s see the genesis of the problem and follow real product in it’s journey;
Product is researched, designed, marketed, produced, delivered, distributed and sold. Each of this activities takes months if not years. With each of this activities there is some amount of money associated. We can visualize this like two interconnected layers. Now if we weaken the vertical bonds between real product activities layer and investment layer, but allow to create horizontal bonds in the investments in the some layer, relationship timing problems will occur. The changes required to research product and ultimately sell it are much slower then the changes taking place in the investment layer and that layer taking the lead of the process, makes it chaotic as the coherence of the slow process is lost and replaced by the chaos of the money market. Wall Street should not manage economy, it should be it’s gauge.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Corporations are Persons
What are Corporations? The way to enable people-persons to evolve into technical civilization? The greatest invention to hide white color crime? A vehicle to unite the planet? A way to quantify what we used to call ethics? Creation of the new Religion?... Pick whichever answer suites you the best but you must have an opinion. You MUST, for better or worse Corporations, not the people, are running your live. Whether you are a CEO or receptionist, you are only an employee… hmm is it really so?
The system we are part of is governed by the set of rules. Who makes them? CEO or receptionist, or maybe Corporations itself. Let’s not forget all this rulemaking is done in a democratically inclined society – by the people for the people (or persons)… You agree that the center of gravity of the setup is shifted to the side of persons, not people. And those persons do not even articulate themselves – we must be very philanthropic society to give so much to a drone. Or… maybe those CEOs and receptionists are not just employs… are they slaves fighting for the status quo? Hmm… Seemingly contradictory positions are supporting the same cause, but what is the cause? How we quantify it? Should we quantify everything?
As one enters this multidimensional paradigm, trying to make some sense of it, it becomes apparent that it is impossible to create logical, quantifiable structure or platform with the set of rules, then perhaps another one but with a different, not intersecting set of rules. Two dimensional structures bend in the third dimension and so on… What we have is the chaos with some clusters of order with the contradictory rules. Contradictory because other clusters would find the same rules defining something totally opposite. Opposite according to whom? And here we come back to the question: is everything quantifiable? What will be your answer? I am sure it will be “No”. Now ask the same question person that happened to be a corporation – the answer will be “Yes”.Now… if you believe in God. God created us - the people - and we accepted position of god’s subjects. What is wrong with keeping our creations - in this case corporations - to be our servants? Why according to our lows corporation was given the right to be a person? Powerful as they are, they are bending our plane of existence in the overwhelming effort to quantify everything.
The system we are part of is governed by the set of rules. Who makes them? CEO or receptionist, or maybe Corporations itself. Let’s not forget all this rulemaking is done in a democratically inclined society – by the people for the people (or persons)… You agree that the center of gravity of the setup is shifted to the side of persons, not people. And those persons do not even articulate themselves – we must be very philanthropic society to give so much to a drone. Or… maybe those CEOs and receptionists are not just employs… are they slaves fighting for the status quo? Hmm… Seemingly contradictory positions are supporting the same cause, but what is the cause? How we quantify it? Should we quantify everything?
As one enters this multidimensional paradigm, trying to make some sense of it, it becomes apparent that it is impossible to create logical, quantifiable structure or platform with the set of rules, then perhaps another one but with a different, not intersecting set of rules. Two dimensional structures bend in the third dimension and so on… What we have is the chaos with some clusters of order with the contradictory rules. Contradictory because other clusters would find the same rules defining something totally opposite. Opposite according to whom? And here we come back to the question: is everything quantifiable? What will be your answer? I am sure it will be “No”. Now ask the same question person that happened to be a corporation – the answer will be “Yes”.Now… if you believe in God. God created us - the people - and we accepted position of god’s subjects. What is wrong with keeping our creations - in this case corporations - to be our servants? Why according to our lows corporation was given the right to be a person? Powerful as they are, they are bending our plane of existence in the overwhelming effort to quantify everything.
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