Monday, May 23, 2016
Universal Graybill
Convective thought after the previous two items.
What do grants do for science? What does globalism do for industry? What does oil do for a country? What does WalMart do for a city? What does QE do to a financial system? What does Federal money do for schools?
Universal Graybill.
When there is ONE highest source of money, or ONE lowest-cost supplier, all of your energy goes into satisfying the ONE. All other skills and moral codes fade away.
In most cases this exclusive focus is UNNECESSARY because OTHER sources or sinks are available, at least for a while. But the ONE is so big, so overpowering, that solitary resistance is usually impossible.
On globalization, a sane ("far-right") government can help its industries to resist the ONE by imposing tariffs or closing borders. On science, a sane (non-existent) university could make special efforts to find nonconformist grant money.
Sharia, though it never worked properly, was meant to solve this problem. The Soviet system actually did solve the problem after Stalin died. Both of these systems focused on maintaining a wide variety of skills and businesses.
Benevolent associations and labor unions were a specific solution. Each skill or ethnic group pooled part of its output to maintain a counterforce, a BULLY who was ready and willing to exert ACTUAL PHYSICAL FORCE against the single-point sources and sinks. Most of the unions have now caved to the giant bullies of corporatism, especially after the government shorted out the Glass-Steagall Resistor that had formerly limited the financial source.
Labels: skill-estate
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