Executive pay has gone
from a measly 50 x the average to 200 x. And this is because everyone
is 4 x better off. If pay were capped to the previously dangerously
Maoist 50 x, then everyone wouldn't be such a 4 x better off like
they weren't before, as there is no connection. If encouraged to 400
x then we would be twice 4 x better off, and this is how progress is
made towards a continuous virtuous circle. The more money hoovered up
and hoarded, the more there is left to make the more money of the
future, as Keynes could have said quicker if he'd spent less time
feasting with panthers.
Executiving is a very
difficult job, and we have some of the best executiving decisionists
in the world, many times better than Norwegian ones, but not quite as
many times better yet as American ones. Who cannot think of an
American executivonist of the moment we would not be even more times
better off with like they are in Detroit.
The UK's Premier League
of executivonist special ones has seen our collective world cupitude
increase from 1 to 0, and shows no sign of this trend dimproving in
the new global competition. Life is unfair, and there should be some
compensation for having Gareth Bale's face, but what is often
forgotten is that the wealth created by the relative positioning of
spheres, trickles down to prostitutes who resemble Wayne Rooney's
grandmother, and goes on to fund a whole further supply chain of
sundry industries that has helped make Manchester what it is today.
In the modern world,
globalisation has meant that the earth now goes all the way around,
and if we don't want foreign investment such as Mr Green's minus £1/2
billion, he informs us that we only have to say so. But the danger is
that such luminaries might leave, and take their geography with them,
likewise the world's largest foreign investor, the Sun.
Nothing is for free,
least of all the Sun, moon and earth. Work - movement - external and
internal, must be paid for. The tide won't turn by itself. Those who
would tax the very tide, in Swansea or Cardiff say, by fantasy
miracles of rare device, forget their position in the league, and the
many times better results achieved by Cnuts everywhere. Sometimes
there just isn't enough sea to go around, and we are all left in the
doldrums.
In the free world,
water always finds its level. 10 x higher are found the 10 x higher
humans, with their 1 second 100 metres, and 1000 IQ s, and so on, all
the way up the pyramid of wealth. Those who took the trouble to
evolve their ancestors, have an inalienable right to the product of
their brains, especially after they are dead. Thus the abstract
capitalism has solved both production and distribution, and removed
countless millions from the idiocy of leisure, with only the minimum
of ghastly waste and horror, just as reflected in its real-world
mirror, evolution.
In a classless
meritocracy such as Britain, the distribution has been solved thus:-
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- which is the most
stable and productive distribution imaginable, and the only
alternative to communist dictatorship. It is in fact inevitable,
possibly even divine, and countries with different shapes and better
outcomes, don't exist other than in reality, which can't be looked up
on the internet. Any incremental shape-shifting towards better - the
phoenix without the ashes - is impossible, since the current
arrangement was supernaturally achieved without human interference.
The puny laws of man are written on paper, thus permanent, and can't
be rubbed out or written over in crayon without the express
permission of fairies, thus the only choice is status quo or
revolution, and certainly not any kind of macroeconomic guaranteed
instant win fruit machine lever, such as a wealth tax, which could
never be made permanent, at any angle of lever, or varied to regulate
constant aggregate demand. Over any area of geography. Repeatedly
post-hoc on the net without prescience. Apart from the whole world
which must first pay off its many trillions of debt to invisible
interplanetary lenders.
The area added to the
inverted pyramid of piffle, globally, has quintrupled in the time
population has doubled, making Malthus look a bit of a cock, like all
such high priests recycling inherited scriptures of self-sacrifice.
This is because everyone is now working 2 ½ days a day, scything
away like a 150 minutes an hour Poldark, and nothing to do with the
invention of combines. Indeed technology has never done any good at
all, and no creation will ever out-perform its creator, as Fred
Flintstone declared on the invention of the wheel. Such perversions
are unnatural, and only encourage the unelected autocratic Strongman
behind physics and war.
If geometric really
were faster than arithmetic, then virtuous circles of green
investment would yield a disastrous crash in the price of the
fundamental economic fuel, making everything higher up the chain
disastrously cheaper as well, and spoiling the race for nuclear,
which the Sun already won without even the decency of trying.
Endeavour would be reduced to competition between who could wear the
silliest clothes, make up the silliest stories, and chant the most
ridiculous things in the stupidest postures, and suchlike, just to
pass the time, and this could never be popular with the religious, or
other pantomime actors. This is clearly not what God wants us to do.
Oh no it isn't -
The poor have always
been with us, they're not something new like homosexuals, and you
can't make them richer merely by giving them more money. In fact this
is the worst thing to do - like feeding a horse - it only makes them
less effective. A stable of fed and trained horses is something too
horrific for any ethical vet to contemplate, and only makes for a
slower average speed. Leaders wondering about Grand National Product,
need only notice that starved, lame and unstabled horses - austerity
horses - are the fastest, and the best people to be in charge are
always the biggest horseshitters in history.
As there is more money
than there ever was, and ever is, and ever and ever amen etc, - wars
and meteors aside - it seems silly to make even yet more, quicker, by
the daunting and arduous expedient of slightly squashing the pyramid.
This would only even be possible if maths existed, and who's to say
it does for sure. Although a 3 year old with building blocks would
find it trivial, when fully rendered through an economical
supercomputer, it looks a lot harder, and this is worth paying a
fortune for, especially if it was wrong the last time. But it is
undeniable that an unfortunate side-effect would be that society
would also become better, by all intersubjective consensus
definitions of the word, by all objective social and moral measures
imaginable.
A long time ago, in the
cradle of civilisation, a pitiful slavedom of simple and bewildered
infantilised peasantry were kept in check by the predictions and
proclamations of fraudulent priests and pharaohs. But nothing evolves
faster than humans, and the scales of justice soon tipped the balance
in favour of the far more numerous Librans everywhere. As a rational
animal, the best economic models depend on this inevitable expression
of rational self-interest, reflected in the collapse and destruction
of every civilisation in history so far.
The law of
non-contradiction is famously both right and wrong, depending on what
level you look at, until a circular truism is noticed at the bottom.
Binary propositions in search of such varying truth yield the most
productive arguments, and may keep the group-selectionists going for
a while, while we wait for someone to point out that all maths is
extending tautologies of x=x, as they do every century. The differing
schools of thought that make up philosophy, show that they've really
done very well indeed, apart from in understanding the paper they've
written on, which folding up and moving, is unlikely to affect any
thought equations. The lack of a causal nexus may be deduced from a
series of if...then statements held in Time, which humans are ideally
wired to appreciate, and thus the Sun may not rise because deduced
was not spelled caused. If 1 = one then maths could be written in
words, or even French, and things would be clearer, but such
wish-thinking is pointless, and the silliest way to proceed.
The cleverest
economists have beards, apart from when they don't, and very
intricate sums are required to show that 12 year olds should work 15
hrs a day to fund genetically unfortunate imbeciles in palaces. If
only the Pope knew this. Engels, and his detractors, so understood
balance of trade, that they both managed to get it wrong, swapsies
being equal, rip-offs being rip-offs, and time-variable prices making
time-variable sums. The balance of trade shows the volume, if you add
both sides, and the quest for autonomy and self-sufficiency remains
fundamentally impossible, although the earth managed it billions of
years ago, without thinking at all.
As Karl spent an
awfully tedious while explaining, it is difficult to own property if
someone else does, but that shouldn't stop one trying. The best
arrangement is to have house prices rising for people who own houses,
and house prices falling for people who don't. To make a commodity
price rise and fall simultaneously, in the same market, is one of the
most notable successes of modern economics. Although transparently
ridiculous to a retarded termite, after suitably strenuous education,
the emergence of bat-caped academagicians has heralded the revelation
that the price of a finite resource will tend towards infinite, and
the best thing to do is to pay as much as possible for land that is
already there, just in case it otherwise disappears. Sacrificing
children to the Sun is something completely different, from a more
primitive and embarrassing time.
On planets
transitioning to abiological labour - every job a cog in the machine
- efficiency = redundancy, in cycles, until they find other things to
do, the possibilities of movement being infinite. Transcending such
physics is surely one of humanity's greatest achievements to date.
Non-physical humans can't be pulled around willy-nilly by invisible
forces like so many iron filings. The good news is that this means
they can never be forced into destructive behaviour contradictory to
their own interests, like war or environmental catastrophe. A sterile
planet would end all suffering, but unfortunately, this most final
solution of all is unlikely without reality, and the same
non-existent forces that, if not so tragically obviously absent,
could just as easily arrange the filings constructively, in symbiotic
alignment, across the face of the earth, as surely as the sunrise.
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REJ:- Yes that twister
diagram is perfect, wealth% in 10% popn blocks. The Wizard of Oz
hides behind the curtain of numbers, and humans are wired for yellow
brick geometry.
