Apple, Amazon Technology And GDP

Apple and Amazon capitalizations total approximately two trillion dollars.The United States Gross Domestic Product totals approximately nineteen trillion dollars.APPL and AMZN capitalizations are a little more than ten percent of all the goods and services from mom and pops to heavy industry sales in the U.S. Apple is a technology company. If there is any truism about technology is that "change " is inevitable and with it fortunes are lost. Amazon is essentially a store.History has shown that the real estate under the store has proven more valuable over the long run. Amazon doesn't need real estate.So any new competition doesn't need any also because technology obviates the need of real estate. What about new technology that threatens Amazon? That is bound to happen

Whims Are Not Rights

It started with the whim"....all men are created equal..."which is included in the second paragraph of the Declaration Of Independence.It was the rational for the founding fathers to object and revolt English rule.But if they really believed it why then did they wage a genocide on the native indians? No. It was lawyer talk.In this usage it was fancy. We are in fact known by our differences. But the seed was planted. From that seed came the Civil War which ostensibly was fought to free the kitchen help whose immediate relatives were still in Africa eating termite larvae.But they were our equal.The real cause of the Civil War was tariffs and taxation and growing power of central government.Then came the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The blacks we freed had many children who thought it would be easier to get ahead if they burned down parts of urban cities and demand to be left alone in their pursuits. But those pursuits cost money and please keep the checks coming --or else.The Civil Rights Act carried additional protected classes who wanted some of this respect. Aretha Franklin covered it. And now a queer too far has demanded it's rights. The notional transgender sans operation wants its whims made into rights. Sorry.Not in my space.There exists more technology and legal apparatus and fiat money than good or wholesome ideas on how to use them.There exists 7 billion humans---too too many.Many will have to keep their whimsy to themselves. Maybe Zuckerbergs Oculus head set would do?

Screen Free, Stone Free: Jimi Hendrix Redux

In 1967 Jimi Hendrix composed and sang "Stone Free".The lyrics in part "Stone free do what I please Stone free to ride the breeze Stone free, baby I can't stay I got to got to got to get away" If Jimmy had lived would he have composed and sang something like "Screen Free I got to got to got to get away"? The screens of course are computers, televisions, stop and go signs etc. Probably he would have considered it.

Prediction Of New Man Made Law

I believe that with the active ingredients of fiat money and ubiquitous technology that everything improper MUST happen before we finally fall apart.

Snapchat: Vanishing Intelligence

Yahoo recently invested millions in Snapchat. It's a three year old start up that enjoys a $10 billion valuation despite no revenues.It lets people send messages, photos and video that typically disappear in ten seconds.CEO Evan Spiegel smiled longer than 10 seconds when interviewed.As well he should. It's a wonder he didn't belly laugh when describing the company's tale of the vanishing product. Snapchat looks to be the ultimate in the promise of technology. It has to be done quickly. No matter the service , just do it fast and you will sell product or service.For example, a user messages a friend an article that will vanish in ten seconds. So that precludes an article that takes longer than 10 seconds to read.Of course all people don't read at the same speed.So will there be a handicapped app? At 10 seconds there won't be time for phone sex.So with sex out and deep subjects out what's left? Maybe that's why there's no revenue at Snapchat.If it has to be said in ten seconds or less it probably isn't worth talking about.

Technology Driven Deflation Is Pushing Us Towards Barter System

The unions have gone away. The middle class is going away. Wages are going away on a relative basis when buying power and less hours worked are added up. The Federal Reserve for all intents and purposes is giving money away. to offset the realities of deflationary trends. So far the drunken sailor monetary policy has failed to reignite job growth or wage increase in any satisfactory way. What's to be done? Well its being done. Technology driven deflation is pointing the way to salvation. Salvation will be a barter system. If adopted, a bartering society will erase unemployment immediately. It will also point out people who are worthless to themselves and by implication to society. Barter will also humanely kill off  bureaucrats . There won't be any checks to cash There won't be any interest to collect. And military proxy wars will go away. And humans will take their place and only one place. They won't be able to "invest" in corporations that decimate the planet. Rhinos and other endangered species will get a pass also.

 Barter and kill a bureaucrat or investor. Sounds good to me.

21 st Century :Age Of Baby Face Power

Why do so many powerful people on the global scene have baby faces?  Examples include Kim Jong Eun of North Korea. He has absolute authority over 24 million North Koreans. He also has his fat fingers on ballistic missiles that have nuclear war heads. He looks like the cute Pillsbury Dough Boy or some cherub-faced bobble-headed toy. The Google founders Brin and Page also have baby faces. Facebooks Zuckerberg could be a poster boy for this new age phenomenon  A common thread of their source of power is technology. Respectively they either inherited , invented or stole someone elses invention. What makes a baby face? It's the absence of the lines of maturity. So technology has leap frogged  normal evolution and given power to the young and maybe foolish or unwise. Add central governments fiat money to technology and powerful immature people at the levers of power and a recipe for chaos appears.

Source of Chaos? :Technology & Fiat Money !

Ever wonder why life is getting more and more challenging? Maybe it's because new challenges come faster and are more complex then heretofore. Why is that? Well, technology has afforded more options of experimentation and implimentation. Many things are done because they can be done not because they should be done. And fiat money has made those options affordable. Any negative or unexpected results from these brave new world experiments is addressed by more fiat money and more evolutionary technology and so forth and so on....

Technology that is squared by fiat money equals chaos. Or , Technology multiplied by fiat money equals constant change which defines chaos. Simplify. Use less tools less and barter.
USE A TOOL ,LOSE YOUR PLACE.

Human Downsizing:Because Of Technology

Use a tool lose your place. From primitives who tinkered tools to todays smart phones., humans have relentlessly distanced themselves from the earth they walk. Corporations downsize payrolls because of software- piloted machines. Workers somewhat compensate by downsizing their life. They diminish expectations and engage an iPhone. There on the small screen is a virtual life that is free. Free from gravity and obligation. Virtually any voyage can be had. Its an experience that never fulfills. There are no smells. There is no sun. There is no rain.There is no breeze.

Debt, Consumer, Democracy:Work for Money

The debt ceiling, spending cuts and raising taxes are in the news. That's putting it mildly. It's a simple problem in essence. People should work. People should get paid for work. When one person doesn't work then at least one other has to shoulder that undone work. Our economy is made up of app. 70% of consumers. In other words , effectively 70% of us consume more than they produce. That's not sustainable yet it has been going on for decades. How is it possible? Technology provides slave-like work . We ship the jobs we refuse to do to other countries and thereby enrich others. And debt covers the rest of the shortfall. We borrow as a nation so we don't have to work. America's currency is a reserve currency of the world. I.E. it underpins the worlds economy. Yet we borrow more than we produce. That's also unsustainable . So the reserve currency status is in jeopardy. Which means that if we lose that postion prices will rise. Which will further exacerbate the debt and lack of work issues.

In the future we will have to work more. At the least our economy will have to be 50% manufacturer and 50% consumer.

Google, Facebook & Billionaire Baby Faces

What's the difference between Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg? Well, Zuckerberg still has some pimples.

Otherwise they are all Jewish. They were billionaires in their twenties. Their photographs remind of 13 year olds at a bar mitzvah. Their respective business' of Google and Facebook have no hard assets to speak of. They both operate in a public forum which subjects them to evolutionary extinction faster than it took to make their own billionaire status. I.E My Space just sold for $35 million a short time after Rupert Murdoch and News Corp paid App. $500 million!

It's funny and it's funny money.

Linkedin:Technology & Money for Monkeys

Linkedin's IPO was a staggering success. It came at $45 and closed at $94! That closing price values the company at app. $8.5 billion. The companies provides a platform for "hiring solutions". While the companies service shortens the discovery process for locating needed talent, it also adds another ingredient to lifes swirling paradigm of humans a.k.a. monkeys .

I.E. MORE TECHNOLOGY MULTIPLIED BY MORE FIAT WEALTH MULTIPLIED BY MORE MONKEYS IN CONTROL OF THAT WEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY EQUALS MORE CHAOS.

Just look around.

Will the Great Plains Come Back?

What are the odds that the Great Plains will come back in their glorious ,verdant form? Millions of square miles of tall and short prairie grass have been plowed and turned into farms. Millions of buffaloes and other species of flower and fauna have been slaughterd for "progress". Forty percent of the corn that is grown on the former Great Plains now goes into the production of ethanol. It costs more to make ethanol than it fetches at the pump. Only because of subsidies does its manufacture continue. All this waste so monkeys can drive . Would you trade 40% of the corn harvest for a return of the required growing space to be left to return to "nature" in perpetuity? I would.

If you think about it, the odds that a frivolous primate could master technology so well that the Plains could be ruined in its entirety is probably more of a long shot than the Great Plains reappearing after the extinction or semi-extinction of wasteful man.

Vacuum Bomb: Correctly Named New Russian Bomb

Russia exploded it's "vacuum bomb". The air explosion is so intense that it creates a vacuum which resonates with the combustion of explosives and vaporizes all in it's fallout area. The name vacuum is appropriate. A lack of leadership or if you will a vacuum of sane, diplomatic leadership leads neatly to a vacuum cleaner approach to all living things.

Monkeys shouldn't have such technology.

Frivolous Monkeys With Guns, Money & Language

Yesterday the BBC reported 1 adult,male and 3 juvenile gorrilas were shot and killed in the Congo's Varengo Mountain Gorrila Reserve. Where is the AIDS virus for these near-monkeys with AK-47s ?

Yesterday the Dow plunged 387 points on nonprime loans fallout. Nonprime loans include banks lending to bad credit history applicants, high debt to income borrowers and no-documents on income home buyers. In other words banks lent their depositors money to would be defaulting borrowers who could walk away from the loans if the home didn't appreciate in value.

Yesterday the democrats gave Bush/Gonzales increased power for warrantless eavesdropping. This is despite the promise from the dems that they were different than the republicans and " if elected " would clean up Washington. Language is cheap. Only deeds count.

We are called homo sapiens. This means we are wise. But we act more like frivolous monkeys with technology.