[MD] scatological economics

[gav]

war is very very good for the economy. with war
billions are made on producing and using weapons. then
after the devastation other corporations make billions
from rebuilding. war is very sensible in a capitalist
economy.

illness is very good too. cancer, heart disease,
depression etc make trillions for the medical and
pharmaceutical industries. better to cultivate then
treat (porrly) disease, rather than prevent it. where'
s the dough in prevention?

built in obsolence is great too. why build something
to last when you build it to break down and sell
another, and another, and another. crap stuff is great
for the capitalist economy.

advertising, especially to kids, is great in a
capitalist economy. their vulnerable minds lap up
directives to eat shit food, buy this or that piece of
crap...and usually the parents accede to their demands
for shit cos they can't be bothered arguing. and of
course: 'give me the child until he is 7 and i will
show you the man'. hey worked pretty well for
catholicism.

what's good for the economy is infinite growth. more
resources, more products, more services, more wars,
more cancer, more depression, more jails (cheap
labour!), more sweatshops (ditto).....don't
stop....paradise is around the corner.

we live in a society that is held to ransom by an
abstraction - the economy - that assigns a monetary
value to everything and sees this AS THE ONLY VALUE.

this is not very MOQ. monetary value is one social
subset of value proper. it is a subsidiary value to
intellectual values of logic, fairness, foresight,
democracy etc. and trumping all - quality. shit is
shit full stop. ever watch ads: they advertise shit.
that's why it has to be advertised. otherwise people
won't buy it. simply: corporate capitalism produces
(through its taylorist/fordist mass production
paradigm) shit. shit that it has to convince us to
buy, eat, live in etc. 

what am i advocating here? well not a socialist
economy, that's for sure. the socialist economies we
have seen last century are really just state
capitalism. they are inferior in some ways to
corporate capitalism; in someways they are superior.
but they both suck from an objective intellectual
viewpoint. they both produce shit by and large.

no. i think it's about QUALITY(funny that). do we get
quality from making things as quickly and cheaply as
possible? do we? no we don't. this is obvious.

our economy is based on expediency. time is money.
time is money time is money. where do you SPEND your
time? let's accelerate towards oblivion.

our economy is based on greed and fear. the stock
market runs on these primal instincts. nothing
sophisticated here. nothing special. nothing very
evolved here. greed and fear: hell of a way to run a
world.

so what's the answer gav...well fortunately a bloke
prepared one earlier for me: quality. if it ain't
quality fuck it off. don't buy shit. don't eat shit.
don't put shit on your body. quality and shit are
opposites, except for in the garden!



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