Formula for Future Success

Human life is pretty simple.

A man only need a few things: clean water, food, basic shelter. Everything else is a "want".

The "human system" is embedded in the nature system. The nature system runs on second hand sunshine. Since the sun is distributed fairly evenly over the earth's surface there's a profusion of forms of life. The nature system also runs on opposed forces that create conditions of dynamic equilibrium, so everything in nature runs in cycles.

The human system is mainly a product of the verbal and symbolic mode of consciousness. A thing like a city is a great example of that. The city attempts to expunge the natural system from its footprint and imposes grids and concrete and asphalt.

The further humans or an individual moves from the natural order, the more precarious is their situation. Consider a body builder who pumps huge amounts of roids into his or her system to build muscle for some bizarre fetishistic reason--the muscle man concept exists only in his or her mind. The body which is the epitome of a dynamic equilibrium system, is pushed far out of the natural and balanced scenario to an extreme, so it fails early, or organs fail, or cancers develop, etc... The image of the muscle man kills off the pile of 'roid muscle growth.

A collection of individuals acting the same way ends up with similar results. An attempt to force a region way out of dynamic equilibrium leads to a precarious situation. Relying on far flung infrastructure to deliver water to millions of people who decide to live in a desert climate like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Israel, etc... is a great example of that. All those cities, and most cities and collections of humans in some corporate endeavor are associated with and endless demand of "wants".

The amount of time and energy that goes into the pursuit of "wants" is staggering. The collective time and energy of everyone in the western world has poured into building a giant garbage pile of consumer products for quite a long time. None of it is durable. In fact, as time goes by consumer products get worse and more wasteful.

It seems plausible that aligning human activity and wants with the natural order would lead to a more durable scenario for an individual. The "problem" in that case is contending with the mass of depraved crazy people in general, and in government in particular. The government and the crazy mass basically wants everyone else to work as slaves to fulfill their wants.

The 401(k) is the best example of that insanity. The mass of people implicitly wants corporate profits to grow so they can live on financial gains, but depend on corporations for jobs and goods. They are a slave that everyone else to be a slave.

Fortunately for the man who wants out, the mass of crazy people won't even see the path toward the natural order life. The natural order life is basically the anti-matter version of the merchant.

A Country Run by Dopes

In my career in tech, I worked on a couple of corporate proposals that I thought were implausible and stupid ideas made up by money men or sales people. 

The first one was to broadcast video from a satellite some company managed to launch, but never use. It was just floating around in space collecting space dust and running out its lifespan as a viable piece of tech junk.

I was puzzled how a company could put together all the resources needed to build and launch a satellite on spec. Back then it was probably many billions of dollars to build and launch a satellite. The company's concept was to broadcast a few channels of videos to cars to keep little kids entertained. Already around 2010 (I think that's roughly when that happened) mobile networks capable of delivering video were rolling out very quickly. Plus you could just install some cheap DVD player in a car to keep kids entertained, so who would subscribe to a service to watch a few broadcast channels of cartoons? Anyway, the satellite lacked sufficient power to transmit such data to mobile terminals with compact antennas, so that project just died.

More recently, I worked on a project to move the control system of a factory to a data center. The entire time I was discussing the project, I thought "why?" Some dummies came up with this model and managed to sell it to a bunch of other dummies that will just do it, even if it makes no sense or isn't viable. To many corporate people "AI" is any computer program or any computerized function. They now think to run any computer program you need an "AI" data center, because it's all AI.

I come back, time and time again to the concept of "elite overproduction" as a way of understanding the current situation in the US. I think a useful associated concept is the "cargo cult". The mass of people running companies and other institutions really don't know what they're doing, so they ritualistically imitate what they think they should be doing.

Trump Nuclear Plants: LoL

The feds are going to finance nuclear power plants to subsidize the shitty tech industry. They're planning to loan "hundreds of billions" which means 3 or 4 nuke plants in about 30 years. I guess we're going with the hyperinflationary collapse with vast resources squandered scenario.

Billionaire Scammers Don't Give a Shit About Global Warmaids Now

Bill Gates recently dropped the global warming bullshit story because there's not enough power to squander on "AI datacenters". Those clowns are always lying and want free money from taxpayers all the time. I wonder if it will ever be so obvious to all the people in the US that it's open season on them all.

50 Year Mortgages

Rumors that banks will start offering 50 year mortgages on homes are making the rounds. I think it's plausible/likely that will happen, which will drive house prices up even more. The neoliberal economic system is heading for the dustbin. It probably took a decade, maybe even two for the post WW2 system to mostly die off. It will probably take about as long for our current POS economic system to go in the trash.

The demented leadership of the US and really the western world wants to replace it with techocratic central planning and digital currencies, but I don't think that will happen. Who knows what will though.

"Management" and the Mediterranean Slave Culture

For most of my adult life I've been working on "projects" of one kind or another. At work, I do tech projects. At home I do things like garden, or home improvements, or property "improvements". I organized several bicycle races over the years, which is actually a pretty big undertaking. One thing I learned is when there's a lot of "management" involved in a project, it will probably fail because the people couldn't do it in the first place--I only see that happen at corporate jobs. On the flip side, when there's no management required, the project is certain to succeed.

In those projects that were certain to succeed, everyone knew what they were doing. So the "management" involved was making a check list, then the team checked the items off, then the project was done.

The corporate idea that incompetent people can be "managed" to be productive seems like an idea from the never ending slave societies that extended back before the bronze age. This idea is the main idea of the current day neoliberal corporatocracies. I think it's incompatible with the northern european people's DNA. It's a shame they're all wasting their time and energy keeping these shit corporate systems running.

The technocrat society is the ultimate expression of that ancient slave culture. Build huge infrastructure to "manage" every aspect of life... Gross.

OpenAI wants Taxpayer Funding for their Hobby Project

Apparently there's not enough 401(k) and pension money to fund a bunch of GPUs and electricity to run chatbots, so tech industry parasites are asking for taxpayer funding. If they aren't funded to finish their hobby project, "china" might do it.

Unfortunately, I think the feds will throw money at these projects and accelerate dollar devaluation--to build chatbot datacenters.

Unlike the dotcom era, when investors threw money at pets.com, WorldCom and Global Crossing, lots of resources are needed to build out the infrastructure for AI data centers. In the dot com era, stonks could soar on a speculative future business where a company just sucked money up with big, but cheap in resource terms stuff, like selling pet toys online. To do that business, you just needed a few warehouses, a few servers and internet service, and mainly a bunch of employees to run it.

The AI model is society needs to build a bunch of expensive, resource intensive stuff to run a silicon valley bro corporation, mainly to feed some billionaire trash more money. It's utterly retarded. Multiple new power plants are needed just to run some dumb AI models, basically to replace some workers with a data center that's sucking up resources. It's very dumb.