Friday, August 16, 2002
Packing... this generation of kids has too much stuff.
Well at least some of us do. A great deal of my generation lives in houses without air conditioning, but some of us, as a product of a well-groomed economy, have a lot of stuff.
I say we will have no more possessions! We shall leave the word and concept out of our childrens' training. This would defeat any economic theory in a matter of seconds (even communism, as there is nothing to share if you have nothing!)
This would make crime a lot simpler. You steal something from someone... but that is it, either you couldnt' steal it because they didn't own it, or they now can just walk up and take it because it isn't yours.
Whole fundamental concepts like GDP would be destroyed. All countries would have a GDP of 0, as there are no final consumers of goods or prices on the goods to be consumed. Think of it, we would never have to worry about recession ever again, because the rate of change of GDP every year would be... 0.
Inflation would come to a grinding half, because without ownership there can't be any sort of price to change.
And finally, it would be a helluvalot easier to move my stuff to Clemson if I didn't have any stuff.
Maybe all this doesn't quite work.
Listening to: Hybrid - Kill City [Edit]
Well at least some of us do. A great deal of my generation lives in houses without air conditioning, but some of us, as a product of a well-groomed economy, have a lot of stuff.
I say we will have no more possessions! We shall leave the word and concept out of our childrens' training. This would defeat any economic theory in a matter of seconds (even communism, as there is nothing to share if you have nothing!)
This would make crime a lot simpler. You steal something from someone... but that is it, either you couldnt' steal it because they didn't own it, or they now can just walk up and take it because it isn't yours.
Whole fundamental concepts like GDP would be destroyed. All countries would have a GDP of 0, as there are no final consumers of goods or prices on the goods to be consumed. Think of it, we would never have to worry about recession ever again, because the rate of change of GDP every year would be... 0.
Inflation would come to a grinding half, because without ownership there can't be any sort of price to change.
And finally, it would be a helluvalot easier to move my stuff to Clemson if I didn't have any stuff.
Maybe all this doesn't quite work.
Listening to: Hybrid - Kill City [Edit]
