Friday, May 31, 2013
WWPD? 1
After making an analogy between trees and economies, it occurs to me that we could learn a few other things from plants. We won't, of course, because we never learn anything. We always draw precisely
reversed conclusions from every experience. But just for my own amusement....
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Repeating the tree-height analogy.
Trees limit their height by sensing when they can no longer pull water from roots to tip. When the downward water pressure in the top branch grows heavy enough to pull in air bubbles, the siphon breaks and growth stops. An economy should limit its growth the same way. Keep growing as long as you're pulling real value (labor and raw materials) from your roots. When you see bubbles forming, you know you've reached the limit of real value. The top branch is starting to pull in counterfeit value. (Stocks, derivatives, overpriced real estate, QE.)
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Plants can answer a few other questions as well.
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Trade and immigration. How should we deal with foreigners?
Plants say:
Use foreigners when they help you to propagate your own species. Use color, smell and electrostatic fields to attract bees to your flowers, and to attract birds and mammals to your fruits.
Repel and kill foreigners when they harm your interests. Grow thorns. Poison the soil to keep other plants from intruding on your rootfield. Poison any insect that tries to eat your leaves.
How do modern western governments deal with foreigners? We deal with them only when they will help us commit national suicide. We let China take our jobs and our ideas. We let in foreigners who are likely to be thieves or terrorists, carefully exclude those who might produce healthy families. We make war against people who didn't attack us, pissing them off so they will attack us.
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Who should we protect when times get tough?
When plants sense drought or other potentially deadly conditions, they spend valuable energy to send seeds into the world. Make more flowers!
When modern governments sense tough times, they protect immigrants, criminals and fags. Die-Versity laws and "due process" guarantee that the least productive elements get the most protection, while normal families get killed by the protected criminals.
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Should we drill for oil?
Plants are constantly seeking new sources of energy. Plants bend and twist and climb to find the best sunlight. A tree will drill horizontally several hundred feet under a house or street, and will fracture rocks to reach water.
No plant would seek a source of energy that only works when it's not needed. Only modern western governments are idiotic enough to build wind turbines.
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Is carbon dioxide a poison?
Plants say:
Are you crazy? CO2 is our food, and we are your food! Why do you want to starve us after we've gone to all the trouble of designing fruits and leaves and nuts that you enjoy and need? What in the holy fuck is wrong with you? If you want to commit suicide, don't take us along for the ride, you monstrous gibbering ungrateful wackos.
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Later followup here.
Repel and kill foreigners when they harm your interests. Grow thorns. Poison the soil to keep other plants from intruding on your rootfield. Poison any insect that tries to eat your leaves.
How do modern western governments deal with foreigners? We deal with them only when they will help us commit national suicide. We let China take our jobs and our ideas. We let in foreigners who are likely to be thieves or terrorists, carefully exclude those who might produce healthy families. We make war against people who didn't attack us, pissing them off so they will attack us.
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Who should we protect when times get tough?
When plants sense drought or other potentially deadly conditions, they spend valuable energy to send seeds into the world. Make more flowers!
When modern governments sense tough times, they protect immigrants, criminals and fags. Die-Versity laws and "due process" guarantee that the least productive elements get the most protection, while normal families get killed by the protected criminals.
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Should we drill for oil?
Plants are constantly seeking new sources of energy. Plants bend and twist and climb to find the best sunlight. A tree will drill horizontally several hundred feet under a house or street, and will fracture rocks to reach water.
No plant would seek a source of energy that only works when it's not needed. Only modern western governments are idiotic enough to build wind turbines.
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Is carbon dioxide a poison?
Plants say:
Are you crazy? CO2 is our food, and we are your food! Why do you want to starve us after we've gone to all the trouble of designing fruits and leaves and nuts that you enjoy and need? What in the holy fuck is wrong with you? If you want to commit suicide, don't take us along for the ride, you monstrous gibbering ungrateful wackos.
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Later followup here.
Labels: Smarty-plants
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