[MD] scatological economics

[David M]

thanks Gav nice post

David M

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From: "gav" <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au>
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:23 AM
Subject: [MD] scatological economics


> 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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