The only fundamentally scarce thing is the synchronous human attention of my team
这一深刻声明揭示了AI开发经济学的核心转变 - 计算资源和代币成本变得极其便宜,而人类注意力成为真正的稀缺资源,这将重塑工程团队的组织和价值分配方式。
The only fundamentally scarce thing is the synchronous human attention of my team
这一深刻声明揭示了AI开发经济学的核心转变 - 计算资源和代币成本变得极其便宜,而人类注意力成为真正的稀缺资源,这将重塑工程团队的组织和价值分配方式。
Reddit, Shutterstock, and News Corp are making hundreds of millions a year licensing their high-quality data to companies training AI, and those contracts are growing about 20 percent annually, according to their quarterly filings.
这一数据揭示了AI训练数据市场的巨大经济价值,表明高质量数据已成为AI公司的战略资产。传统内容公司正在转型为AI的'输入公司',这种转变不仅改变了他们的商业模式,也重新定义了数据在AI生态系统中的核心地位。
This marks the first institutional backing from a traditional financial giant for on-chain Agent payment infrastructure
令人惊讶的是:这竟然是传统金融巨头首次对链上代理支付基础设施的支持,说明AI代理经济已经发展到足以吸引顶级金融机构投资的程度,预示着一个全新的金融生态系统正在形成。
Each of these companies recognized the cognitive burden of unbundling. They're not selling features. They're selling trust.
令人惊讶的是:AI公司正在重新定义软件销售模式,从销售单一功能转向销售信任。这种转变反映了在快速变化的AI环境中,企业更愿意与能够提供长期稳定性和全面解决方案的供应商建立信任关系,而非购买多个分散的工具。
OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain's AI ambitions
令人惊讶的是:OpenAI搁置了价值310亿美元的英国AI投资项目,这是英国AI领域有史以来最大的单一投资失败,凸显了国际科技巨头对英国市场信心的动摇。
The new growth, by contrast, will increasingly sit in tokens, consumption, automations, outcomes, and machine-driven workflows. If you are not in the token path, you are not standing in the fastest-growing part of the budget.
令人惊讶的是:文章明确指出软件行业的增长将从传统的基于座位(seat-based)模式转向基于代币(token-based)的消耗模式。这种转变意味着软件公司需要重新思考其商业模式和定价策略,从订阅制转向按使用量付费。这一预测暗示了软件行业正在经历根本性的商业模式变革。
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are<br /> by [[Walt Hunter]] in The Atlantic accessed on 2026-03-07T09:25:37 Read: Sun 2/8/2026 7:42 PM
[[Cory Doctorow p]] on AI en the economic dynamic behind the hype that bigtech is pursuing to remain growth stocks even as monopolists. 'tech centaur' me in a car, a human head on something else vs 'reverse centaur' a meat puppet doing the machines bidding, e.g. an Amazon delivery driver
The study also considers future scenarios. If 15% of this spending were retained within the European economy by 2035, around 500,000 direct, indirect, and induced jobs would be created, benefiting the European economy.
reallocating just 15% of this spending would create 500k jobs in the EU
80% of total spending on cloud software and services for business use in Europe went to US companies, representing a volume of €265 billion.
80% of cloud spending by business goes to US companies. The annual volume is 265 billion Euro.
This spending, relating exclusively to cloud software and services for business use, represents approximately 2 million direct, indirect, and induced jobs in the US.
265 billion Euro is about 2 million jobs.
Today's links The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Error code 451; Public email address Mansplaining Lolita; NSA backdoor in Juniper Networks; Don't bug out; Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. The Post-American Internet (permalink) On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech. Video Playerhttps://archive.org/download/doctorow-39c3/39c3-1421-eng-A_post-American_enshittification-resistant_internet.mp400:0000:0001:01:12Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Many of you know that I'm an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation – EFF. I'm about to start my 25th year there. I know that I'm hardly unbiased, but as far as I'm concerned, there's no group anywhere on Earth that does the work of defending our digital rights better than EFF. I'm an activist there, and for the past quarter-century, I've been embroiled in something I call "The War on General Purpose Computing." If you were at 28C3, 14 years ago, you may have heard me give a talk with that title. Those are the trenches I've been in since my very first day on the job at EFF, when I flew to Los Angeles to crash the inaugural meeting of something called the "Broadcast Protection Discussion Group," an unholy alliance of tech companies, media companies, broadcasters and cable operators. They'd gathered because this lavishly corrupt American congressman, Billy Tauzin, had promised them a new regulation – a rule banning the manufacture and sale of digital computers, unless they had been backdoored to specifications set by that group, specifications for technical measures to block computers from performing operations that were dispreferred by these companies' shareholders. That rule was called "the Broadcast Flag," and it actually passed through the American telecoms regulator, the Federal Communications Commission. So we sued the FCC in federal court, and overturned the rule. We won that skirmish, but friends, I have bad news, news that will not surprise you. Despite wins like that one, we have been losing the war on the general purpose computer for the past 25 years. Which is why I've come to Hamburg today. Because, after decades of throwing myself against a locked door, the door that leads to a new, good internet, one that delivers both the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 that let our normie friends join the party, that door has been unlocked. Today, it is open a crack. It's open a crack! And here's the weirdest part: Donald Trump is the guy who's unlocked that door. Oh, he didn't do it on purpose! But, thanks to Trump's incontinent belligerence, we are on the cusp of a "Post-American Internet," a new digital nervous system for the 21st century. An internet that we can build without worrying about America's demands and priorities. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about Trump or his policies. But as my friend Joey DaVilla likes to say "When life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla." The only thing worse than experiencing all the terror that Trump has unleashed on America and the world would be going through all that and not salvaging anything out of the wreckage. That's what I want to talk to you about today: the post-American Internet we can wrest from Trump's chaos. A post-American Internet that is possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to join the fight on our side. In politics, coalitions are everything. Any time you see a group of people suddenly succeeding at a goal they have been failing to achieve, it's a sure bet that they've found some coalition partners, new allies who don't want all the same thing as the original forces, but want enough of the same things to fight on their side. That's where Trump came from: a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists, and self-described "libertarians" who've got such a scorching case of low-tax brain worms that they'd vote for Mussolini if he'd promise to lower their taxes by a nickel. And what's got me so excited is that we've got a new coalition in the War on General Purpose Computers: a coalition that includes the digital rights activists who've been on the lines for decades, but also people who want to turn America's Big Tech trillions into billions for their own economy, and national security hawks who are quite rightly worried about digital sovereignty. My thesis here is that this is an unstoppable coalition. Which is good news! For the first time in decades, victory is in our grasp.
Sees the original fight by digital rights activists now joined by geopolitical economics and international cybersec. Thinks this combi will win out
U.a. Schlüsseldaten zur Erosion und Zerstörung der regelbasierten internationalen Ordnung (oder des Anspruchs darauf) in den letzten Jahrzehnten. Kein Hinweis auf die ökologische Dimension.
I think all of these kind of public good uh infrastructures that we have came about in this very narrow special window of time uh where you had this kind of incursion of egalitarianism uh and and a and a spirit of of you know public-mindedness that's all being eroded.
for - public good - being eroded
So a lot of the goodness that was felt in the western world and experienced in the western world was thieved really really thieved and left a lot of damage in its wake.
for
hat the book is is kind of trying to do is trace that lineage from that initial uh you know the the very first kind of literary endeavors um through uh you know uh Judaism and and through the classical Greek uh thinkers
for - book - tracing history of progress / Growthist political economy narrative from Vikings to Mesopotamia to Judaism to Greeks to Islam to Enlightenment to US
for - David Suzuki talk - ecology and economy
the economy should be embedded into the nature.
for - ecological civilization - economy should be embed into nature
ECO comes from the Greek root Oikos - for managing the home
to - David Suzuki talk on interconnectedness - air example
especially democratic at all levels.
for - post-growth economy - democratic at every level
he most important decision-m which is economic is removed from the political realm for um a lot of us who live in democracies
for - growth economy - important economic decisions - people have no say
the growth economy is that it's fundamentally anti-democratic.
for - growth economy - anti-democratic - free-market rhetoric prevents - democratic - social - environmental - oversight
European Union launched in 2022 itsEuropean Care Strategy, stressing the need for Member States to provideaffordable and adequate access to high-quality long-term care services forall those in need (European Union, 2022). The fact that such a high-levelpolicy announcement was deemed necessary implies that the reality acrossEurope is far from this goal, that in practice care services are often of lowquality, unaffordable and inadequate, and that many people in need do nothave access to them – and that informal care can no longer solve the situation.
Nation and confereradtion-level decisio making that takes, it seems as a starting point, an axiom (?) that
limate change, demographic change is increasingly recognisedas a grand societal challenge that, if not adequately addressed, can threatennot only the quality of life and human dignity of older people, but also thelabour market participation of their family members, the balance of nationaleconomies and even the legitimacy of political decision-making
Clearly laying out the stakes involved in figuring out how to care for people within a society. Not just a "grand societal challenge" that impacts QOL and dignity but also: * labour market participation of family members nationl econommies legitimacy of political decision (?)
ngineering manual for building Muture Ihree.
for - book - The Last Economy - about how to build human symbiosis - an engineering manual for building Future Three: Human Symbiosis
for - youtube - AI will end Capitalism - interview - Emad Mostaque - book - The Last Economy - to - book - The Last Economy - https://hyp.is/JGCVHsgrEfCKpkua_vRoBw/webstatics.ii.inc/The%20Last%20Economy.pdf
when that base looks for solutions, they can't find a bunch of glib corporatists in fancy suits with flashy smiles. They have to see authentic hardcrable defenders of the working class and hear ideas that speak to them, not at them.
for - MAGA base - when the old economy dies, they will be looking for defenders of the working class - adjacency - corporation to cooperation - MAGA base
come January this is all coming tumbling down
for - prediction - US economy - after January - quantitative easing
Giovani Ari who observed that mature capitalist economies move from manufacturing to services to financialization before decline.
- economics - mature economies - manufacturing to service to finance then decline
- US economy - in decline
twothirds of US workers now report living paycheck to paycheck
for -stats - US economy - 66% live paycheck to paycheck
More than a quarter of the labor force now does gig jobs, says the workers lab at Johns Hopkins.
for - stats - US economy - 25% is gig economy
Award-Winning Writer Explains Her Entire Process — Susan Orlean - YouTube<br /> by [[David Perell]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-05T09:13:24
0:00:38 Susan Orlean uses index cards as part of her process. She's done this for three or four books by October 29, 2025.
She uses her index cards (often in the range of 700) to arrange and re-arrange the material. She uses it to refresh her memory as she's working with it.
Things can be as small as a name of a character. Some are references to longer research documents.
"chunk of thought" (her version of atomic notes)
attention economy [7:59]
in the twentieth century, society was supposed to be impersonal: lifewas organized by state bureaucracy, capitalist markets and scientificexperts. Not surprisingly most people felt estranged and powerless inthe face of all this.
Counter definition of human economy in the XXth century.
In order to be human, the economy must be at leastfour things:1. It is made and remade by people; economics should be of prac-tical use to us all in our daily lives.2. It should address a great variety of particular situations in alltheir institutional complexity.3. It must be based on a more holistic conception of everyone’sneeds and interests.4. It has to address humanity as a whole and the world society weare making.
Where do they pull these four? Others?
For well over a century now,this discipline has called itself economics and its subject matter hasbeen the economic decisions made by individuals as participants inmarkets of many kinds. People as such play almost no part in thecalculations of economists and they find no particular reflection ofthemselves in the quantities published by the media. The economyis rather conceived of as an impersonal machine, remote from theeveryday experience of most people. The idea that we put forwardhere of a ‘human economy’ is intended to remind readers that theeconomy is made and remade by people in their everyday lives.
It isimpossible any more to hold that economies will prosper only if mar-kets are freed from political bondage.
Evidence built for this assertion?
umbrella concept of ‘the human economy’ whichrefers to an emphasis both on what people do for themselves andon the need to find ways forward that must involve all of humanitysomehow.
relation to projects like Donut Economics?
But if Cox and Trump represent two rival impulses within the Republican coalition, Trump is undoubtedly winning. “Democrats own what happened today,” Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina said on Wednesday. “Y’all caused this,” Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida told Democrats on the House floor. “It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organization,” the influential Trump adviser Laura Loomer posted on X. “We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The Left is a national security threat.”Other influential figures on the right have been equally or more strident. “The Left is the party of murder,” Elon Musk declared on X before a suspect had even been identified. Andrew Tate, the misogynist who has been charged with sex trafficking in two countries (which he denies); Alex Jones, the conspiracy-theorist broadcaster; and Libs of TikTok influencer Chaya Raichik all invoked “civil war.”
people calling for retribution without any facts
The State of the Culture, 2024<br /> by [[Ted Gioia]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T08:53:09

Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way - The Atlantic<br /> by [[Jonathan Lemire]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T08:39:4
Wartime mobilization led to a doubling of the gross national productand eliminated unemployment, ending the Great Depression
Spam's mass production benefited US's wartime industrial expansion The need to feed both troops and civilians drove the scaling of processed food manufacturing Spam is influenced by industrialization and become a symbol of US food tech Reflects how war spurred economic recovery and transformed US industry and food system
Jay Hormel turnedto pork shoulder, a cut of meat that was routinely wasted in the butcheringprocess
Spam made use of cheap and discarded meat reflected Depression-era frugality; made meat more accessible to lower-income populations
oranges as a gift of nature scientifically proven to promote health andgrowth—the perfect antidote to all of the pathologies of modern living.
Shows how vitamin C discovery was used to boost orange sales and link them to health and modern living --> advertising methods
the destruction of food or otherwealth ... is economic insanity
Critique of the agricultural system that burned food during widespread hunger
the orchard men prefer “the Chinamen because heis their slave
Reveals blatant exploitation and racism toward Chinese workers, who were later excluded by law
“The Powell Method reformed the bodies of workers, so thattheir motions in the groves and in the packing houses would more efficientlypreserve the perfect bodies of oranges.”
Reflects how workers’ physical movements were controlled to maximize fruit quality, showing labor as mechanized and disciplined.
But when tens of thousands of Great Plains migrants arrived, Californiawas far from the promised land. One migrant said, “They told me thiswas the land o’ milk an’ honey, but Ah guess the cow’s gone dry, and thetumblebugs has got in the beehive.” There wasn’t enough work to go around,and the oversupply of labor pushed wages even lower. With little money tobe made, the migrants settled into tents and make-shift communities alongirrigation ditches. Native Californians looked down on these poverty-strickennewcomers, with one grower exclaiming, “This isn’t a migration—it’s aninvasion! They’re worse than a plague of locusts!”19 The migrants moved on,following the oranges, the potatoes, the peas, whatever crops were ready forpicking, working for unsustainable wages
The labor of orange picking andpacking was especially regulated
The main goal was to reduce agricultural surpluses in orderto raise prices and boost the farm economy. There were two ways to actuallyreduce surplus, depending on seasonal cycles. It is critical to note that the AAAwas created in May 1933, when the crops had already been planted and thelivestock had already begun breeding. “Reducing surplus” in early summermeant destruction. Oranges were burned down to “putrefying ooze,” corn wasburned as fuel, potatoes were dumped in the rivers
The AAA reduce surplus to increase farm economy and production efforts --> burning of oranges and other food supply (What an odd way of thinking but ok)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250719082633/https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/ by Paul Kedrosky On the enormous capital expenditures for AI related data centers, at the level of 2% US GDP. A volume big enough to influence overall economy / hide other currents in economy.
for - paper - climate crisis - rebound effect - paper - title - Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: A review of the evidence and its implications - from - post - LinkedIn - rebound effect - https://hyp.is/yz4m_ldBEfC18Bfg0RPf2w/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7346027213776953344/
William Nordhaus is the source of generally accepted modeling of the economic cost of climate urgency and inaction, yet increasingly his models are seen as wildly wrong, not accounting for asymmetric risks and uncertainty (and using GDP as main yardstick it seems). Reads like a linear modeling which disregards cascades and non-linear complex causality chains.
Yoose, B., & Shockey, N. (2024). Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink (Version v1). SPARC. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13886473
Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Combined with our 2023 report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, this analysis illustrates the wide range of privacy risks inherent in the business models and practices in the academic scholarship marketplace.
Among other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site (along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in our public website analysis). While the specific privacy concerns posed by SpringerLink are different, our analysis reiterates the findings from our ScienceDirect report: that user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms.
While this analysis and recommended actions are grounded in the library context, these findings will raise pressing issues for faculty, administrators, and policymakers to consider as well. The report closes with suggested actions that libraries can take over both the short and long term to address vendor privacy risks.
Stefan Dercon
Use of capitalism rises as mixed economy declines
The use of "mixed economy" in texts according to n-gram viewer was cut in half from 1990 to 2000.
Excess unemployment was tolerated to keep any chance of inflation in check. Raises in the federal minimum wage became smaller and rarer. Labor law failed to keep pace with growing employer hostility toward unions. Tax rates on top incomes were lowered. And anti-worker deregulatory pushes—from the deregulation of the trucking and airline industries to the retreat of anti-trust policy to the dismantling of financial regulations and more—succeeded again and again.
The gap between productivity and a typical worker’s compensation has increased dramatically since 1979
Nice diagram showing the Pay Gap (wages vs productivity) widened circa 1970. Probably petrodollar contributed to that.
Η αιτία των καπιταλιστικών κρίσεων, συνεπώς, βρίσκεται στην ανεπάρκεια της ενεργού ζήτησης (η οποία, επιπλέον, είναι κατά βάση καταναλωτική ζήτηση), ανεπάρκεια που οφείλεται, εν τέλει, στους χαμηλούς μισθούς.
That book, [[Monopoly Capital]], eventually expresses the principle marxist idea of [[surplus value]], the one Jack London famously had advocated about, specifically that by distributing only 50% of their profits as wages, capitalists provoke the next Crisis, hence Capitalism is unstable (coupled with the diminithing returns of capital).
The Russian marxists knew since the 1920's that the answer to these capitalistic contradictions is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Ένα, όλο και σημαντικότερο, τμήμα του, λοιπόν, είναι αναγκαίο να δαπανάται σε μη-παραγωγικές δραστηριότητες, από τη διαφήμιση και τον χρηματιστικό τομέα, έως το real estate και αντίστοιχες σπατάλες, στις οποίες καταστρέφεται κοινωνικός πλούτος, προκειμένου να ευνοηθούν τα μονοπώλια.
Capitalism needs ([[Graeber]]) Bullshit Jobs, as Baran & Sweezy claimed in their 1966 book "Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order".
What is it that delivers the air that we can breathe? Guess what? It's all the green things on the planet. Surely that should-- does that have a value in our economic system? Guess what? Economists call that an externality. And what I found out is, they don't care about that. It's considered so vast it's irrelevant to our economy.
for - quote - air is a resource so vast has no value in the economy - David Suzuki
the challenge is to reduce our circle within that planet. We've got to reduce and get back down to a size that makes sense. And within that circle, which is us, is a much smaller circle, which is the economy. That should be the way that we look at it. The biosphere, our species, and the economy,
for - economy is within ecology - David Suzuki
the attention economy business model because they're basically using ever increasingly sophisticated techniques to try and capture my attention and hold me in their silo
for - adjacency - attention economy - NOT people-centered - competing apps - status quo internet - JOIN ME
And those that will find cause for optimism and relativism, as double materiality is preserved and indeed if 80% of companies are descoped from the CSRD, but in GDP terms, those are 'only' expected to represent 10%.
OK, so we still have how much of the economy represented then?
Die EU bezahlt Russland für fossile Brennstoffe mehr, als sie der Ukraine an Finanzhilfen zur Verfügung stellt. 2024 bezog sie für 22 Milliarden Euro Öl und Gas aus Russland und zahlte 19 Milliarden an die Ukraine, wobei Militär- und humanitäre Hilfe nicht einbezogen sind. Insgesamt betrugen die Einnahmen Russlands aus dem Export fossiler Brennstoffe im dritten Jahr der Invasion der ganzen Ukraine 242 Milliarden Euro. Der Guardian berichtet über einen neuen Report des Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more-russian-oil-gas-than-financial-aid-ukraine-report
Spotify was filling some of its popular and relaxing mood playlists—such as those for “jazz,” “chill,” and “peaceful piano” music—with cheap fake-artist offerings
well, here comes the a.i. in handy. admittingly, i welcomed this perspective in the nineties along with piratebay, napster and so on. but i had to realize, that this still is social science fiction: we have the technic but not the economy for this: under the given, we are killing our idols. luckily, we just can not use spotify and buy their albums, no?
for - climate crisis - impact of Trump tariff strategy - increasing economic and carbon inequality and precarity for the masses - from - Youtube - Trump wants to crash to benefit the ultra wealthy - Trump's planning to crash the global economy - Richard J Murphy - 2024, Dec
// - SUMMARY - Richard J Murphy provides us with a big picture of Trump's objective in his calculated Tariff strategy - It's not that it makes no sense and is a strategy of a madman - On the contrary, he has a very calculated and maniacal strategy that will result in significantly increasing the wealth of the elites - By creating high tariffs, he will bring about a global economic crash - Like the 2008 and 2020 crash, central banks will print trillions of dollars of money and handout bailouts - It is the elites who will receive these bailouts and inflate the value of their assets - This will - substantially increase the wealth of the rich - substantially increase the precarity of the vast majority of people - increase global inequality - financial inequality and - carbon inequality - This increased precarity is bad news for the climate crisis as a precarious population have less flexibility in reducing their carbon footprint and are more dependent than ever on whatever remain job and resources they still have - Given we have this knowledge of the elite's hidden strategy, can we the people intervene in any way? - We need to have an understanding of how elites see the world - The entire worldview of externalizing investment as a game of accumulation must be understood deeply - in order to find leverage points for rapid system change
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Trump expect if he creates another world financial crisis he believes there will be a bailout and he believes that he and his cohort the world's wealthy will benefit from there being vastly more money in circulation with very little to use it on except the inflation in the value of the assets that they own that is what he's banking on this is literally I think his Economic Policy
for - quote - economic crashes are profitable for the elites - Trump plans to crash the global economy so that subsequent Quantitative Easing bailouts will inflate value of assets of the rich - from - Youtube - Trump wants to crash to benefit the ultra wealthy - Trump's planning to crash the global economy - Richard J Murphy - 2024, Dec
quote - economic crashes are good for the elites - Trump plans to crash the global economy so that subsequent Quantitative Easing bailouts will inflate value of assets of the rich - Trump expect if he creates another world financial crisis - he believes there will be a bailout and - he believes that he and his cohort the world's wealthy will benefit from there being vastly more money in circulation with very little to use it on except the inflation in the value of the assets that they own - That is what he's banking on - This is literally I think his Economic Policy - This is what he expects as a consequence of his trade Wars - He doesn't care that we suffer - He won't care about the countries in the developing world - the vast majority of countries in the world in fact who have their debts denominated in dollars who will suffer enormously as a result of their struggle to find the means to repay those debts - As for the time being, the dollar is inflated in value and interest rates are too high he won't care that people are thrown out of work - All he cares about is the inflation in asset values and that is what the whole of the world economy is now geared to create - for the benefit of a few - at cost to the vast majority - Trump's Economic Policy makes sense if you see it in this way - He runs a bailout economic strategy that is going to work for him and his friends because - it will result when the world economy crashes and yet more money being made available through the central banking system to inflate the value of the assets that they own - And they'll say thank you very much we did very nicely out of that when can we have another crash?
current system is ‘closed source’, and is carried out by competitive agents that do not share innovations for very long time periods; the competitiveness of these agents requires behaviors that externalize costs
for - examples - closed source IP externalises cost - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20
examples - closed source IP externalises cost - closed source circular economy is much more challenging than open source circular economy because - if inputs are kept secret and proprietary, reuse of End of life products are difficult to break down and reuse as input in a re-manufacturing process - closed IP creates fragmented and completing de facto standards that make interoperability impossible
Experiencing boredom is crucial for abstract reasoning and insight, because it helps stimulate the brain’s default-mode network, the set of brain regions that becomes active when the outside world does not impinge on our mind’s attention. Neuroscientists have shown that such activity is vital for accessing high-level meaning.
Even though virtually every definition of sustainability includes the requirement that human activities should not exceed nature's carrying capacity (Brundtland et al., 1987; Fiksel, 2006), popular metrics for assessing environmental sustainability ignore the role of nature in supporting human activities and well-being (Bakshi et al., 2018).
for - nature positive - ECOnomy is part of ECOlogy - David Suzuki - Xue & Bakshi, 2022
lib-lab dynamic
for - further research - Karl Polyani - book - The Great Transformation - Lib-Lab dynamics - Kondratieff waves - cycles of political economy - from Michel Bauwens - lib-lab dynamics - Kondratiefff waves - Kondratieff cycles
The community becomes the NationThe ‘state’ becomes a Nation-StateThe market becomes Capital
for - trefoil of - people - government - economy - Kojin Karatani
There’s a version of the “why writers should blog” story that is tawdry and mercenary: “Blog,” the story goes, “and you will build a brand and a platform that you can use to promote your work.” Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is bullshit, and that one is no exception.
Who were the Physiocrats?
for - definition - physiocrats - Steve Keen - economy - history - economic flow as biomimicry of body's circulation system
definition - physiocrat - During the 18th and 19th century, a group of mostly French "economists" led by Francois Quesnay, physician to the King of France at the time, performed some of the first autopsies of the time. - Autopsies were banned for the longest time for religious reasons - When Quesnay performed autopsies, he discovered networks of tubes in the circulation system and this led him to surmise a network of circulation in another field, economics - Quesnay advised the king, hence the name physiocrat - So modern economics has its roots in biology - it was a case of biomimicry!
1:06:53 The true constraints are the resources that are available (and if those resources will co-create together for the good of the WHOLE).
1:08:08 What is the Economy of Marlborough (for example)
1:05:36 Instead of asking DONORS for money, a community can make its own money and donors can contribute to a healthy local economy as a participant rather than a funder
p46 Ecology has "succeeded" in changing politics "by introducing objects that had not previously belonged to" politics, but also failed because it's so often a marginalised party, and often placed in opposition to "economics" etc, the opposing needs then given greater salience. -- This is the core concern that comes back in his 2023 co-authored booklet: ecology is really about everything, not a fringe interest -- it encompasses economic concerns etc -- so how can we turn that truth into a political reality?
Key observation, ecology surrounds everything. Vgl [[De Europese dataspace als eenheidsmarkt 20200120144254]] waar mensen niet snappen dat je er per def in zit.
Comes from [[On the Emergence of an Ecological Class by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz]] january 2023. Schultz is a Danish sociologist, Uni CPH and Aarhus School of Achitecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSoeQSegRW4&list=PL3NaIVgSlAVKWUrFOkDW7AEjXaiPQu_IM 3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Burning Out on YouTube
The red curve in the right panel of Fig.3 shows a more realistic trajectory for theeconomy in the face of a steady physicalscale. In this example, non-physical activitiesare allowed to comprise 75% of the economybefore saturating. Although this upperlimit is arbitrary, its exact value does notchange the resulting saturation of the overalleconomy.
for - steady state economy - when we hit physical constraints - a major percentage of our economy needs to be non-physical
In this case, the non-physical elements of the economy areconstrained (arbitrarily) to grow no higher than 75% of the total, resulting in only a modest amount ofdecoupled economic growth before flattening.Nature PHysics | www.nature.com/naturephysics
for - adjacency - question - degrowth? - circular economy? - steady state - regenerative processes
adjacency - between - degrowth - circular economy - regenerative practices - steady state economy - adjacency relationship - Where did the 75% number come from? Is there anything special about it? Is it some kind of a limit from the model? - Would circular and regenerative practices play an important role in this? - This would seem to indicate a degrowth type scenario. Degrowth is a misnomer, it doesn't imply continual economic downward trend, - but is specifically addressing a the decrease of physical human economic activity - that is responsible for our excessive pollution load / biodiversity loss - to levels necessary to avoid the worst impacts - It isn't explicitly stated that the other half of degrowth is growth of non-physical economic activity that nurtures and nourishes humanity
neoclassical Economist about you know growth can be totally decoupled from 00:45:45 Material use
for - progress trap - abstraction - the ECONOMY! - abstracted and separated from nature
demography will have an impact on the future of the American economy, politics, and social infrastructure.
for - key insight - demographic shift will have major implications on U.S. economy, politics and social infrastructure.
how was it that our symbols became so dislocated 00:09:34 from physical uh materiality and the biophysical reality that we've created an economy that's destroying the biosphere
for - question - Planet Critical podcast - What is the role of language in creating an ecocidal economy?
Lawrence Levine’s The Opening of the AmericanMind (1996). Levine’s Culture Wars intervention is part history andpart polemic, as evident in the title’s refutation of Allan Bloom’s 1987sensation. Levine defended the evolution of multicultural college cur-ricula and was also concerned with the “larger struggle over how ourpast should be conserved, how our memory should function, andwhere the focus of our attention should be.”30
Lawrence Levine<br /> The Opening of the American Mind (1996)<br /> note the coverage of "how our memory should function"
trosky came out with which is turning more and more and more of the economy to the service of the state a kind of mass 00:20:41 nationalization
for - geopolitics - Russia war economy strategy
geopolitics - Russia's war economy strategy - Putin is moving the country in this direction - following Trotsky to turn the entire economy into a war economy and following Lenin to use brute force to coerce the population to join the cause - However, looking at this basic economic game analysis of the Russia Ukraine war, it does not look feasible -
come this winter if you were paying attention last winter with all the utility failures
for - Russian economy - domestic problems
reference - see interview with Russian war domestic economy commentator Kostantin Samoilov - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FXX3zU5QNvCw%2F&group=world
economies of scope
for - answer - size of a digital nation - definition - economy of scope
answer - size of a digital nation - In contrast to nation states with the concept of economy of scale, - in Network states, we have the concept of economy of scope
definition - economy of scope - for small group through strong alignment of interests and values, to foster close kinship - then expand to other similarly aligned groups with synergies between groups
A 'typewriter rebellion' is underway. Here's what that means and why it's attracting kids from 2024-04-15 from Joe Dana / 12 News / Phoenix, AZ
to the change from books to articles and papers, whichleads to a large amount of duplication, and the ne-cessity of wading through a great deal of what doesnot interest us directly.
Since 1908 there's also been the move towards small digestible social media which increases the dial on repetition and duplication, but the sense of flow created by dopamine hits to be found in the attention economy make these difficult things to overcome.
The neglect of the book is however not altogether advanta- 78geous.
There is a range of reading lengths and levels of argumentation which can be found in these various ranges.
Some will complain about the death of books or the rise of articles or the rise of social media and the attention economy. Where is balance to be found.
Kaiser speaks to these issues in ¶75-79. One must wonder what Kaiser would have thought about the bite-sized nature of social media and it's distracting nature?
Ongweso Jr., Edward. “The Miseducation of Kara Swisher: Soul-Searching with the Tech ‘Journalist.’” The Baffler, March 29, 2024. https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso.
ᔥ[[Pete Brown]] in Exploding Comma
Sam Harnett’s 2020 paper “Words Matter: How Tech Media Helped Write Gig Companies Into Existence” remains one of the best accounts of how swaths of the media enthusiastically generated on-demand propaganda for the tech industry, directly setting the stage for these firms to exploit, codify, and expand legal loopholes that largely exempted them from regulation as they raided their users for data and generated billions in revenue. Such intellectual acquiescence would, as Harnett writes, “pave the way for a handful of companies that represent a tiny fraction of the economy to have an outsized impact on law, mainstream corporate practices, and the way we think about work.”
Harnett, Sam. “Words Matter: How Tech Media Helped Write Gig Companies into Existence.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY, August 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3668606.
And then themedia giants find new crises and the nation’s inherited disregard for classreboots, as the subject recedes into the background again.
The pushing of the attention economy broadly prevents society from facing its most important problems. We're constantly distracted and are ultimately unable to focus on what is really important.
Eine neue Studie der Universität für Bodenkultur beziffert erstmals, wieviel Kohlenstoff zwischen 1900 und 2015 langfristig oder kurzfristig in menschlichen Artefakten wie Gebäuden gespeichert wurde. Die Menge des dauerhaft gespeicherten Kohlenstoffs hat sich seit 1900 versechzehnfacht. Sie reicht aber bei weitem nicht aus, um die globale Erhitzung wirksam zu beeinflussen. Die Möglichkeiten, Boot in Gebäuden zu nutzen, um der Atmosphäre CO2 zu entziehen, werden bisher nicht genutzt. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000208522/co2-entnahme-durch-holzbau-ist-bisher-nicht-relevant-fuer-den-klimaschutz
Studie: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad236b
Die EU hat 24 deutsche Wasserstoffprojekte genehmigt. Insgesamt werden 8 Milliarden Euro investiert, davon etwas mehr als die Hälfte vom Staat. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/wasserstoff-eu-genehmigt-deutsche-wasserstoff-projekte-staat-gibt-46-milliarden-euro/100015276.html
for - circular economy - design - furniture - circular economy - private - furniture
compare - Delft university - circular kitchen - Stykka
Eine Empfehlung des Zusammenschlusses nationaler Akademien der Wissenschaften und eine zusammenfassende Studie zum globalen Plastiksystem empfehlen die Reduktion des Verbrauchs um 50% und eine Reihe weiterer Schritte wie das fast vollständige Recycling von Plastik und die Produktion aus Biomaterialien. Anlass sind die Verhandlungen zum internationalen Plastikabkommen. Plastikproduktion und Verbrauch führen schon jetzt – abgesehen von zahlreichen anderen negativen Folgen – zu Emissionen von ca einer Gigatonne CO2 im Jahr. Ohne drastische Änderungen wird sich diese Menge vervielfachen. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000205422/wissenschaft-fordert-radikale-abkehr-von-herkoemmlicher-plastikproduktion
Community activists will increasingly use hypermedia to replace corporate capitalism and big government with a hi-tech 'gift economy' in which information is freely exchanged between participants.
I know the idea "gift economy" was around in the late 2000's and even more prevalent in the teens, but not sure where it originated. This is one of the earliest settings I've seen (within tech).
The current silver economy stands at
for - silver economy - stats - silver economy
stats - silver economy - 2024 - 7 trillion yuan ($982 billion USD) - 6 % GDP - 2035 - 30 trillion yuan ($4.2 trillion USD) - 10% GDP
question - silver economy - climate change impacts? transition impacts?
in general countries tend to excavate enormous volumes of earth and this earth is incredibly considered as a waste material
for - circular economy - building - excavation waste - circular economy - construction - excavation waste - key insight - repurpose excavation waste as building material
key insight - She makes an pretty important observation about the inefficiency of current linear construction process - The excavation part requires enormous amounts of energy, and the earth that is excavated is treated as waste that must be disposed of AT A COST! - Instead, with a paradigm shift of earth as a valuable building resource, the excavation PRODUCES the building materials! - This is precisely what BC Material's circular economy business model is and it makes total sense!<br /> - With a simple paradigm and perspective shift, waste is suddenly transformed into a resource! - waste2resource - waste-to-resource
new meme - Waste-2-Resource
for - circular economy - kitchen - circular economy - furniture - circular kitchen - Stykka - modular furniture
comment - sadly, it's not open source, but this is to be expected with most mainstream businesses. - the problem is in trying to protect one's IP and look after self-interest, it scales very slowly. - we need open-source, circular economy, open-source, circular furniture and open-source circular kitchen
for - Biofold - circular economy - bio-furniture - Space10
Excessive regulation is harmful.
45% der CO<sub>2</sub>-Emissionen entstehen durch die Produktion von Materialien. Der Standard berichtet über eine Podiumsdiskussion in Wien, aus der hervorgehen, das Recycling allein die ökologischen Probleme, die dadurch entstehen, nicht löst. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000203446/warum-recycling-kein-ausweg-aus-der-materialschlacht-ist
Die 20 größten Unternehmen der Welt sind in den vergangenen Jahren noch mächtiger geworden. Das zeigt eine neue Studie mehrerer NGOs. Diese Unternehmen können Marktpreise und Produktlinien diktieren, weil sie fast keine Konkurrenz haben. Sie betreiben intensives Lobbying. https://taz.de/Warnung-vor-Macht-der-Grossunternehmen/!5986399/
for: elephants in the room - financial industry at the heart of the polycrisis, polycrisis - key role of finance industry, Marjorie Kelly, Capitalism crisis, Laura Flanders show, book - Wealth Supremacy - how the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Captialism Drive Today's Crises
Summary
meme
Which is exactly what you do in the book. And what did you find? - So what I do, I take apart the operating system of capitalism, which is, and I look at seven myths, really that drive it.
for: book - wealth supremacy - 7 myths, 7 myths of Capitalism, capital bias, definition - capital bias
DESCRIPTION: 7 MYTHS of CAPITALISM
quote: Laura Flanders
The last country to abandon it was Switzerland, which severed ties between its currency and gold in 1999.
Switzerland inequality kicked in ~1999 roughly when they abandoned the [[Golden Rule]], as hinted by Kevin Tartis in X.
Relative mobility in education around the world (1980s cohort)
, Canada, Australia, Mongolia, S.Africa, Yemen, Western EU and Greece are the best. Strange map...
Chettyet al. (2014) estimate intergenerational mobility for the US down to highly disaggregated geographic areas (commuting zones) and find that it varies considerably. In some parts of the country, mobility (or equality of opportunity) is on a par with some of the most mobile countries in Europe, while in other parts, children struggle to escape poverty when born into it. They also find that areas with relatively high rates of mobility tend to be ones that are less residentially segregated (i.e. households from different socioeconomic backgrounds and different races reside in the same neighbourhoods) and have lower inequality, higher quality public school systems, stronger social networks, and stronger family structures. The empirical observation that more equal societies tend to be more mobile is also known as the Great Gatsby curve (Corak 2013).
Intergenerational mobility is, expectedly, lower in the US where social net is low and segregation high.
It's time for a redesign. Solar panels and wind turbine blades ending up in landfill are flaws in product and business model design.
We need to talk about renewables - Part 2: Using a circular economy approach to redesign renewable energy infrastructure
"There's so much pressure and emphasis on getting the Green Revolution happening that it's almost by any means necessary without that pause of 'well it is green, but is it as green as it should be?"
We need to talk about renewables - Part 1: Why renewable energy infrastructure needs to be built using a circular economy approach
JustOne Organics Living Economy System (JOOLES)
France is shaping a system-wide transition towards a circular economy with an ambitious law that has introduced several measures that are a world first.
better health, better security, better economy, secure job, better... Simply a more modern, attractive life.
In January 2018, Deutsche Bank produced an 81-page report, “US Income and Wealth Inequality”,
Link to the PDF has moved.
Italien ist einer der 5 strategischen Korridore der EU für die Versorgung mit Wasserstoff. Interview mit Stefano Venier, der die Gesellschaft Snam zur Überwachung von Gastransport und -Speicherung leitet. Venier bringt bekannte Argumente zur Verwendung von Gas als Übergangstechnologie. Er sieht für Italien besondere Möglichkeiten bei der Versorgung mit Wasserstoff aus nordafrikanischen Ländern und der Speicherung von durch CCS gewonnenen CO<sub>2</sub>.
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.
The Circularity Gap Report 2023: Official launch video
The question is Do you know what your superpower is? The combination of skills and abilities that's unique to you
Basically, you must be unique. You can't compete when you learn exactly the same as everyone else. The education system sets up to fail and makes you a modern slave.
Atypical restraint on compensation increases has been evident for a few years now and appears to be mainly the consequence of greater worker insecurity. In 1991, at the bottom of the recession, a survey of workers at large firms by International Survey Research Corporation indicated that 25 percent feared being laid off. In 1996, despite the sharply lower unemployment rate and the tighter labor market, the same survey organization found that 46 percent were fearful of a job layoff.
Regarding Noam Chomsky's words about Greenspan.
This is also mentioned in https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/jul/21/facebook-posts/social-media-meme-says-alan-greenspan-said-insecur/
So when Alan Greenspan was testifying before Congress in 1997 on the marvels of the economy he was running, he said straight out that one of the bases for its economic success was imposing what he called “greater worker insecurity.” If workers are more insecure, that’s very “healthy” for the society, because if workers are insecure they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health. At the time, everyone regarded Greenspan’s comment as very reasonable, judging by the lack of reaction and the great acclaim he enjoyed. Well, transfer that to the universities: how do you ensure “greater worker insecurity”? Crucially, by not guaranteeing employment, by keeping people hanging on a limb than can be sawed off at any time, so that they’d better shut up, take tiny salaries, and do their work; and if they get the gift of being allowed to serve under miserable conditions for another year, they should welcome it and not ask for any more. That’s the way you keep societies efficient and healthy from the point of view of the corporations. And as universities move towards a corporate business model, precarity is exactly what is being imposed. And we’ll see more and more of it.
Noam Chomsky on Alan Greenspan's ideas on 'worker insecurity'.
At the 'Library of Things' in Sachsenhausen Library Centre, people can borrow objects they might otherwise need to buy
CIRCULAIRE INNOVATIE PROJECTEN
The international gateway of the Dutch circular economy
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reply to u/bestlunchtoday at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/12gadut/benefits_of_sharing_permanent_notes/
I love the diversity of ideas here! So many different ways to do it all and perspectives on the pros/cons. It's all incredibly idiosyncratic, just like our notes.
I probably default to a far extreme of sharing the vast majority of my notes openly to the public (at least the ones taken digitally which account for probably 95%). You can find them here: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich.
Not many people notice or care, but I do know that a small handful follow and occasionally reply to them or email me questions. One or two people actually subscribe to them via RSS, and at least one has said that they know more about me, what I'm reading, what I'm interested in, and who I am by reading these over time. (I also personally follow a handful of people and tags there myself.) Some have remarked at how they appreciate watching my notes over time and then seeing the longer writing pieces they were integrated into. Some novice note takers have mentioned how much they appreciate being able to watch such a process of note taking turned into composition as examples which they might follow. Some just like a particular niche topic and follow it as a tag (so if you were interested in zettelkasten perhaps?) Why should I hide my conversation with the authors I read, or with my own zettelkasten unless it really needed to be private? Couldn't/shouldn't it all be part of "The Great Conversation"? The tougher part may be having means of appropriately focusing on and sharing this conversation without some of the ills and attention economy practices which plague the social space presently.
There are a few notes here on this post that talk about social media and how this plays a role in making them public or not. I suppose that if I were putting it all on a popular platform like Twitter or Instagram then the use of the notes would be or could be considered more performative. Since mine are on what I would call a very quiet pseudo-social network, but one specifically intended for note taking, they tend to be far less performative in nature and the majority of the focus is solely on what I want to make and use them for. I have the opportunity and ability to make some private and occasionally do so. Perhaps if the traffic and notice of them became more prominent I would change my habits, but generally it has been a net positive to have put my sensemaking out into the public, though I will admit that I have a lot of privilege to be able to do so.
Of course for those who just want my longer form stuff, there's a website/blog for that, though personally I think all the fun ideas at the bleeding edge are in my notes.
Since some (u/deafpolygon, u/Magnifico99, and u/thiefspy; cc: u/FastSascha, u/A_Dull_Significance) have mentioned social media, Instagram, and journalists, I'll share a relevant old note with an example, which is also simultaneously an example of the benefit of having public notes to be able to point at, which u/PantsMcFail2 also does here with one of Andy Matuschak's public notes:
[Prominent] Journalist John Dickerson indicates that he uses Instagram as a commonplace: https://www.instagram.com/jfdlibrary/ here he keeps a collection of photo "cards" with quotes from famous people rather than photos. He also keeps collections there of photos of notes from scraps of paper as well as photos of annotations he makes in books.
It's reasonably well known that Ronald Reagan shared some of his personal notes and collected quotations with his speechwriting staff while he was President. I would say that this and other similar examples of collaborative zettelkasten or collaborative note taking and their uses would blunt u/deafpolygon's argument that shared notes (online or otherwise) are either just (or only) a wiki. The forms are somewhat similar, but not all exactly the same. I suspect others could add to these examples.
And of course if you've been following along with all of my links, you'll have found yourself reading not only these words here, but also reading some of a directed conversation with entry points into my own personal zettelkasten, which you can also query as you like. I hope it has helped to increase the depth and level of the conversation, should you choose to enter into it. It's an open enough one that folks can pick and choose their own path through it as their interests dictate.
Link to: https://hypothes.is/a/lV19ytGBEe2ynWMu34UKUg
This depreciation is done at the lowest level of exchange and caused the system to collapse rather quickly. What level is our current exchange done at such that the inequalities are pushed up multiple levels making the system seem more stable? How is instability introduced? How could it be minimized?
Our current system is valued both by time and skill (using the measure of payment per hour).
Compare this with salespeople who are paid on commission rather than on an hourly basis. They are then using their skill of sales ability and balancing time (and levels of chance) to create their outcomes, but at the same time, some of their work is built on the platform that sales management or the company provides. Who builds this and how do they get paid for it? Who provides sales leads? How is this calculated into the system costs?
How do these ideas fit into the Bullshit Jobs thesis?
beauty determines how we perceive the world because beauty binds looks
The biggest issue for me is that medium makes me feel like a cash cow. The way it wants me to pay every step of the way, the way it hijacks copy/paste to insert its own marketing. The account it wants me to create. The trackers it inserts everywhere. You missed the step of making something great that people actually feel good about paying for. The grassroots "for users by users" community feel that other platforms still manage to tap into. A site you'd be proud to be part of and happy to pay for. The problem with an X-views paywall is: you annoy me so much that even if there's good content behind it I'm long gone before I ever find out because you've already pushed me away. It just has this "all about the money" feel that I deeply hate.Also, not every author is out to make money. My personal blog is not monetized at all. It's more my way of outreach for my day job in tech. And I'd never want to put my readers through this experience. Free content should be exempt.The other points like the quality of content dropping because you recommend the wrong stuff, yeah they dropped the value proposition even more. But they weren't the real problem.
The real problems with Medium
"There's so much pressure and emphasis on getting the Green Revolution happening that it's almost by any means necessary without that pause of 'well it is green, but is it as green as it should be?"
Circular Economy for the Energy Transition
first thing's first is we reorder the vital industrial hubs. 00:38:13 Now yes, those industrial hubs will actually have to have decision makers what considers a vital hub. What's a vital activity? Then we need the people to actually operate those in industrial services. So you'll have a population inserted. Around that population, we have our food production and it all has to be local. So you have now a series of localized, decentralized networks that are actually, you'll have a 00:38:39 hub where everything balances, but in a local area.
!- alignment : Michaux's vision of industrial transformation and many others working in the commons - relocalization, dense local circular economies, community owned for democratization of production - in addition, commons theory of cosmolocal production networks all these relocalized dense production hubs together for information sharing efficacy
there's an order to do things in. And so the first order of business was to reshuffle and reorder our industry sites around energy hubs. Where is their energy coming from? 00:35:16 And if we can't project it over such a long period of time, over a long distance anymore, how do we reorder our industry where each industrial site will be attached to other sites, where they function almost like an industrial version of an organic farm. The outputs of one industry unit and its waste plume inputs to another industrial unit, and 00:35:44 they're all attached to the same energy system.
!- overview : restructuring industry around an energy constrained future - redesign for circular colocated factory networks - output waste streams of one plant feeds input feedstock of nearby plants - relocalize to minimze unnecessary transportation
Το ανακαλυψα από τον Alexander Clapp about για τους πλούσιους ελληνες εφοπλιστές που διασκεδαζαν στο θωρηκτό Αφερωφ ενω οι πολιτες πεινούσαν.
Mokyr (1998) - The Political Economy of Technological Change - https://is.gd/xYxqEn
To avoid the worst case scenario, we need to embrace the circular economy of "repair, redesign, reuse" to reach net zero.
WEC
Something for #degrowth?
Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and GrowthRoland Bénabou, Davide Ticchi, and Andrea VindigniNBER Working Paper No. 21105
Sri: [...] you can think about the possibility that we're actually going to do this with structured data but then properly incentivizing people in order to actually moderate and curate the set of facts about the world—
Will: Yeah, so I was gonna mention that, and I'm glad we're on the same wavelength here. What are the economic incentives that would help encourage the adding of correct, factual data to this knowledge graph and dissuade, I guess, spammers? [...]
Sri: Yeah, I think that there needs to be some compelling reason for people to want to add data to the knowledge graph. [...] I think that, "Can we get a knowledge graph that is expansive—as expansive as Wikipedia—that, you know, says all kinds of facts about the entire world?" Yeah, maybe[...]
Will: There are parts of the Web where people do that without financial incentives. I mean people list like every episode of, I dunno, Game of Thrones and annotate every time that people get killed or [...] all sorts of stuff. Fandom is like [a] huge thing and they just put out these... or like the—if you ever played Minecraft and looked at the Minecraft wiki, it's just so (chuckles) so detailed. Like, "Who spends all their time...?" [...]
Sri: The idea of fandom actually is very relevant here, because [...] I have so far been thinking about the idea that the incentives have to be backed by some type of economic value—
Will: Yeah, for a certain class of things [...] There are some things that are very well-tuned to economic incentives and the other stuff is well-tuned to fandom, right?
One of the first consequences of the so-called attention economy is the loss of high-quality information.
In the attention economy, social media is the equivalent of fast food. Just like going out for fine dining or even healthier gourmet cooking at home, we need to make the time and effort to consume higher quality information sources. Books, journal articles, and longer forms of content with more editorial and review which take time and effort to produce are better choices.
The socioeconomic disruption associated with COVID-19 represents a highly unusual alteration of the human interaction with the Earth System. This alteration is likely to generate a series of responses, illuminating the processes connecting energy, emissions, air quality and climate, as well as globalization, food security, poverty and biodiversity
La perturbación socioeconómica asociada a COVID-19 representa una alteración muy inusual de la interacción humana con el Sistema Tierra. Es probable que esta alteración genere una serie de respuestas que iluminen los procesos que conectan la energía, las emisiones, la calidad del aire y el clima, así como la globalización, la seguridad alimentaria, la pobreza y la biodiversidad.
Covid: Boris Johnson resisted autumn lockdown as only over-80s dying - Dominic Cummings. (2021, July 20). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57854811
Hayek worried they would never let go
Once the government has control of the economy, will they ever let go?
18. The success of the referendum orga nized by Uber and Lyft to preserve their ex-tremely precarious model in California in 2020 illustrates the limits of an idyllic visionof direct democracy, as well as the need to reconceive a salarial status that makes it pos-sible to reconcile protection and autonomy.
The develop-ment of digital platforms and gig workers paid by the task now con-stitutes as much a redoubtable threat to salarial status as to our liber-ties, and we will be able to fight it only if the public authority regainscontrol of the sector and implements new laws.11
Sewage sludge is commonly used on agricultural land as a sustainable and renewable source of fertiliser throughout European countries, in part due to EU directives that promote the diverting of sewage sludge away from landfill and incineration and towards energy production and agriculture.
This EU directive led to the spread of the unintended consequence.
the team estimate that microplastics removed from raw sewage at wastewater treatment plants go on to make up roughly 1% of the weight of sewage sludge, which is commonly used as a fertiliser on farms across Europe.
This case illustrates the potential unintended consequences from attempting to do good.
This is a classic example of how progress traps occur.
Capturing nutrients in waste water closes a nutrient waste loop and seems a good example of applying circular economy thinking.
HOWEVER, at the time the decision was made to process sewage sludge into fertilizer ignored the relationship of sludge to microplastics was unknown or insufficiently explored. After the decision was made, the practice was adopted across many countries in the EU. After years of practice, the new knowledge reveals that there has been years of silent microplastic contamination. To fix the solution will require another solution, perhaps even more complex..
This illustrates the danger of applying circular economy techniques when the waste stream is not fully characterized.
What can we do with a shift in thinking backed by a total of $3.6 trillion in funds under management? I’m backing strategic circular initiatives to convert the highest return on value for anyone’s money. Stay tuned as we crack open new investment opportunities.
Her diagram explicitly shows a synthesis of planetary boundaries and circular economy. This is a connection that many in this area are tacitly aware of but is good to explicate it in a diagram of this sort..
If circular economy is about ultimate reuse and recirculating material flows to eliminate the concept of waste, then how does energy consumption fit into the picture? Obviously, CO2 emissions is a form of material waste that is an undesirable byproduct of carbon-based energy usage. Capturing CO2 and reusing it is one method, but not a very scalable solution presently.
have no or very low energy and transportation bills.
This can be structurally accomplished by reimagining community to have a local center of gravity. Redistribution of economic activity to where we live will dramatically reduce the need for high energy transportation.
Another scalable strategy is to shift from cars to velomobiles for short distance trips. In a car culture, even short trips require high energy transportation vehicles. Instead, replace these short trips with either public transport, walkable neighborhoods or velomobiles with very low weight and high mileage electric or other non polluting propulsion systems.
For four years, an accelerated and intensive global effort will be made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and restore ecological stability. It will be “fast and furious” because it will involve startup action as well as implementation. It is focused on the remaining “low-hanging fruit” for fastest global reductions
The Tipping Point Festival can introduce the Bend-the-Curve (BtC) gamification to engage as many cities, towns, rural communities and bioregions as possible. A 3 year research program to dis-aggregate planetary boundaries can allocate a fairshare of local biophysical targets each city, town, rural community and bioregion must aim to achieve if we as a civilization are to meet the 1.5 deg C target, as well as other Anthropocene and planetary boundary targets.
Doughnut economic framework can be adopted immediately and educated across all communities to plant seeds of local change actor chapters who can start their own local doughnut economies and begin reshaping their local economy into circular bio WEconomies.
When the dis-aggregated planetary boundary metrics are available, then each community can adopt and aim to bend their local curve, in order that we altogether bend the global curves back to a safe operating space.
it may be questionable whether we are able to develop highly accurate targets, but even if we are close enough, the greater value is to allow citizens to have a tangible and compelling and measurable reason to work together, organize and mitigate our human impacts in a systematic way. In this way, we can expose the hyperthreat by breaking it down into digestable, identifiable pieces that are cognitively more accessible and can lodge into the salience landscape of the individuals of a community.
Smith recognizes the role of bargaining by the workers as an important determinant of real wages (Aspromourgos, 2010, p. 1173; Stirati, 1994, p. 51; WN, p. 85). Thus, there is a central role for history and institutions to determine real wages (see Aspromourgos, 2009, pp. 248–249). Smith is also open to the possibility of workers’ wages rising significantly above customary subsistence such that it enables them to engage in “conveniences” consumption—especially when the economy is growing. This rise in wages, for Smith, occurs through strengthening of workers’ bargaining power (Aspromourgos, 2010, p. 1179). Smith believes that competition generates innovation which causes productivity growth and subsequently perhaps higher real wages (Aspromourgos, 2009, p. 208).
Adam smith on the effect of competition of wagers & capitalists as beneficial for the increase of wealth.
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Do we have to wait for people to die before these kinds of digital fanclubs can materialize for people who aren't in entertainment?
This is a good case study for what I talk about when I mean the fancub economy.
Wouldn't it be better if gklitt were a willing participant to this aggregation and republishing of his thoughts, even if that only meant that there were a place set up in the same namespace as his homepage that would allow volunteers ("fans") to attach notes that you wouldn't otherwise be aware of if you made the mistake of thinking that his homepage were his digital home, instead of the place he's actually chosen to live—on Twitter?
Department of State. (2021, April 6). .@SecBlinken: Stopping COVID-19 is the Biden-Harris Administration’s number one priority. Otherwise, the coronavirus will keep circulating in our communities, threatening people’s lives and livelihoods, holding our economy back. Https://t.co/uk20myyICI [Tweet]. @StateDept. https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1379554511606280192
Prof. Devi Sridhar. (2021, April 8). Biden-Harris Administration gets that it is COVID-19 itself hurting the economy (the virus circulating, not just the restrictions). Stopping COVID-19 is best way to get people’s lives & livelihoods back. [Tweet]. @devisridhar. https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1380095008787857409
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, February 17). The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the erosion of trust around the world: Significant drop in trust in the two largest economies: The U.S. (40%) and Chinese (30%) governments are deeply distrusted by respondents from the 26 other markets surveyed. 1/2 https://t.co/C86chd3bb4 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1362021569476894726
As a general rule, if your call is to dismantle institutions without a plan for what is supposed to take their place, you can safely assume the default setting is “the market will take care of it.”
However, Erdogan said Turkey and Russia were also negotiating a way to use the Ruble and Turkish Lira for tourism as Putin promised the Turkish leader he would encourage Russians to travel to Turkey.
Mhtsotaki's unconditional pro-West stance has given Turkey all kinds of leverage and benefits, including economical ones.
so if i have to summarize quickly as to what are the reasons that led to the 00:17:31 decline of silicon economy they are massive external debt then rapidly depleting foreign exchange reserves because of heavy imports then decline in tourism due to the pandemic after that high level corruption in the government 00:17:43 and banning of chemical fertilizers which hampered agricultural production
here is an interesting condition of the imf they also interfere in the government
110 of 00:01:28 its gdp and the inflation rate is at 15 which is the highest inflation rate since 2008. pakistan and sri lanka are both currently in similar situation
a differing payment basically means an agreement between the lender and borrower where the borrower requests the lender to give them loan and that loan will be repaid at a later date when situation would be comparatively better
sri lankan government has approached the international monetary fund for a bailout bailout basically means asking 00:00:37 financial assistance in order to save any business or in this case you can say save the country's economy from collapsing and you also need to ponder upon the fact that the sri lankan government is asking this kind of financial assistance on deferring loan
Desirables: * data export * data import (POSSE/PESOS) * collaboration (wiki/fanclub, annotations)
That’s a time savings of several orders of magnitude, but what would it take to also relieve me (or whoever) of this burden? Probably not much more than the initial effort, if it was done in the right place.
the need for an ombudsman or viable "fanclub economy"
If you put a bunch of research into designing a really great product and it succeeds but gets effectively copied by low-cost clones, you’ll be sad. I am not sure how to defend this, and I think it is probably the weakest point of this business model;
By getting to economies of scale faster than other people can?
Spinney, L. (2022). Pandemics disable people—The history lesson that policymakers ignore. Nature, 602(7897), 383–385. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00414-x
Hur, K. (2022, February 16). Restaurateur says he spends around $750,000 on security to deal with unruly diners. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/restauranteur-says-he-spends-around-750000-on-security-to-deal-with-unruly-diners.html
Even though results of these studies are currently under intensescrutiny and have to be taken with a grain of salt (Carter andMcCullough 2014; Engber and Cauterucci 2016; Job, Dweck andWalton 2010), it is safe to argue that a reliable and standardisedworking environment is less taxing on our attention, concentration
and willpower, or, if you like, ego. It is well known that decision-making is one of the most tiring and wearying tasks...
Having a standardized and reliable working environment or even workflow can be less taxing on our attention, our concentration, and our willpower leaving more energy for making decisions and thinking which can have a greater impact.
Does the fact that the relative lack of any decision making about what to see or read next seen in doomscrolling underlie some of the easily formed habit of the attention economy? Not having to actively decide what to read next combined with the random rewards of interesting tidbits creating a sense of flow is sapping not our mental energy, but our time. How can we better design against this?
Meyerowitz-Katz, G., Bhatt, S., Ratmann, O., Brauner, J. M., Flaxman, S., Mishra, S., Sharma, M., Mindermann, S., Bradley, V., Vollmer, M., Merone, L., & Yamey, G. (2021). Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19. BMJ Global Health, 6(8), e006653. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006653
Claudia Sahm. (2022, January 5). “We, as experts, have a responsibility to policymakers and everyday people to match the strength of our recommendations to the strength of our data. When I read Oster, I see a tone and conviction that far exceeds the many limitations of her data.” https://t.co/NqWwj0hi28 [Tweet]. @Claudia_Sahm. https://twitter.com/Claudia_Sahm/status/1478532000441151488
If banks no longer receive deposits, how will they issue loans?
It seems Anne O. Krueger is clueless about NMT economics, or credulous to the banker's myth that deposits feed loans.
Other companies look five years ahead and make plans for the next year. They prefer to think like farmers: Look 20 years ahead, and plan only for the next day.
What a nice metaphor of a sound way to do business.
Κάθε κατάληψη πληρώνει ένα “κοινωνικό ενοίκιο” κάθε μέρα σε εργατοώρες που αν αμοίβονταν -ακόμα και με τον πιο υποτιμημένο βασικό μισθό- θα επέτρεπαν στα μέλη της να ζουν άνετα ως ιδιώτες. Αυτό το κοινωνικό ενοίκιο είναι μια σύνθεση του λόγου της, των δράσεων της, των διαδικασιών που ακολουθεί, των χρήσεων που απελευθερώνει, των πόρων που βρίσκει για να αντικαταστήσει το χρήμα, των κοινών τόπων που δημιουργεί.
Οικονομική θεώρηση για τα positive externallities των καταλήψεων.
Andersen, K. (2022, January 25). The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination/621355/
India’s GDP growth rate will be 9.2% in FY22. In FY21 it was 7.3%.
upcoming Union Budget for 2022-23 should maintain an accommodative fiscal stance in order to support the sustainability of the economic growth process and also for financing human development
R? accommodative fiscal stance
fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP rose to 9.5% in 2021–22 (revised estimates)
RBI has not yet formally announced any “normalization” procedure, though absorption of excess liquidity was attempted by increasing the cut-off yield rate of variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) to 3.99%, and curtailing the government securities acquisition programme
inflation we are currently experiencing is transitory in nature due to supply chain disruptions and volatile energy and food prices
Elliott, L., & editor, L. E. E. (2022, January 24). Omicron pushes UK business growth to 11-month low. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/24/uk-business-growth-omicron-covid-variant-january
Το δίκτυο αυτό το συντηρούσε έως τώρα η ΕΥΔΑΠ, αλλά πλέον θα κληθεί να πληρώσει για τη χρήση του, συν το γεγονός ότι πρόσφατα δέχθηκε να πληρώσει 157 εκατομμύρια ευρώ στο Δημόσιο για το αδιύλιστο νερό που πήρε μέσω αυτών των αγωγών κατά τα έτη 2013-2020.
Ετσι ξεπουλούν τα ασημικά της χώρας: με αυυθαίρετους νόμους κ λογιστικές αλχημείες φεσώνουν τις Δημόσιες Επιχειρήσεις, καταστώντας τες προβληματικές, κ ύστερα αναζητούν ιδιώτη επενδυτή, φίλο τους και Άριστο, να τις αγοράσει σε τιμή ευκαιρίας.
Middelaar, L. van. (2021, December 29). Faced with Covid, Europe’s citizens demanded an EU response – and got it. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/dec/29/covid-europe-citizens-eu-response-pandemic-european-health
DrPH, M. D. H., M. D. (2022, January 11). The Folly of School Openings as a Zero-Sum Game. The American Prospect. https://prospect.org/api/content/4a1fc36e-7263-11ec-9e7d-12f1225286c6/