Estilhaçar o conluio

O capítulo "Moloch: The Sloanist Mass Production Model" faz pensar. Pensar no conluio que foi necessário, entre os Estados e as empresas grandes, para criar o mercado de massas necessário para as viabilizar...

.
Pensar como a coisa continua até aos nossos dias.

"Mass production required large investments in highly specialized equipment and narrowly trained workers. In the language of manufacturing, these resources were "dedicated": suited to the manufacture of a particular product—often, in fact, to just one make or model. When the market for that particular product declined, the resources had no place to go. Mass production was therefore profitable only with markets that were large enough to absorb an enormous output of a single, standardized commodity, and stable enough to keep the resources involved in the production of that commodity continuously employed. Markets of this kind... did not occur naturally. They had to be created.
….It became necessary for firms to organize the market so as to avoid fluctuations in demand and create a stable atmosphere for profitable, long-term investment."

...

"Under the Sloan system, if a machine can be run at a certain speed, it must be run at that speed to maximize efficiency. And the only way to increase efficiency is to increase the speed at which individual machines can be run. The Sloan system focuses, exclusively, on labor savings "perceived to be attainable only through faster machines. Never mind that faster machines build inventory faster, as well.""

...

"There is also the regulatory state's function, which we will examine below in more depth, of imposing mandatory minimum overhead costs and thus erecting barriers to competition from lowoverhead producers.
State spending serves to cartelize the economy in much the same way as regulation. Just as regulation removes significant areas of quality and safety as issues in cost competition, the socialization of operating costs on the state (e.g. R&D subsidies, government-funded technical education, etc.) allows monopoly capital to remove them as components of price in cost competition between firms, and places them in the realm of guaranteed income to all firms in a market alike."

...

"Mass production divorces production from consumption. The rate of production is driven by the imperative of keeping the machines running at full capacity so as to minimize unit costs, rather than by customer orders. So in addition to contractual control of inputs, mass-production industry faces the imperative of guaranteeing consumption of its output by managing the consumer. It does this through push distribution, high-pressure marketing, planned obsolescence, and consumer credit." 

Mongo vai ter de defrontar este conluio. Mongo está a minar este conluio. Mongo é o estilhaçar do mercado de massas e a explosão da diversidade.... e isso implicará estilhaçar o Estado como o concebemos?

Mongo é inevitável mas...

Mongo é inevitável mas vai ser atrasado até ao limite pelo poder dos Estados
.
A história da humanidade é feira de constantes retornos, constantes ciclos que repetem os erros anteriores e as posteriores depurações, até que tudo novamente se volta a complexificar e a implodir sob a incapacidade do poder e da ordem conterem as forças da diversidade.
.
A Torre de Babel é uma bela a metáfora desse fenómeno:

"The higher the fixed costs of an enterprise, the larger the income stream required to service them. That’s as true for the household microenterprise, and for the “enterprise” of the household itself, as for more conventional businesses. Regulations that impose artificial capitalization and other overhead costs, the purchase of unnecessarily expensive equipment of a sort that requires large batch production to amortize, the use of stand‐alone buildings, etc., increase the size of the minimum revenue stream required to stay in business, and effectively rule out part‐time or intermittent self‐employment. (Moi ici: Normas, leis e regulamentos, da UE, dos governos ou da ASAE, tantos e tantos exemplos em como o Estado é colocado ao serviço dos Golias, para liquidar a concorrência mais pequena. Por exemplo, o que se passa com as marcações CE é caricato) When such restrictions impose artificially high fixed costs  on the means of basic subsistence (housing and feeding oneself, etc.), their effect is to make cheap and comfortable subsistence impossible, and to mandate ongoing external sources of income just to survive. As Charles Johnson has argued,

If it is true  that, absent the state, most ordinary workers would experience a dramatic decline in the fixed costs of living, including (among other things) considerably better access to individual ownership of small plots of land, no income or property tax to pay, and no zoning, licensing, or other government restraints on small‐scale neighborhood home‐based crafts, cottage industry, or light farming/heavy gardening, I think you’d see a lot more people in a position to begin edging out or to drop out of low‐income wage labor entirely—in favor of making a modest living in the informal sector, by growing their own food, or both . . . 

On the other hand, innovation in the technologies of small‐scale production and of daily living reduce the worker’s need for a continuing income stream. It enables the microenterprise to function intermittently and to enter the market incrementally, with no overhead to be serviced when business is slow. The result is enterprises that are lean and agile, and can survive long periods of slow business, at virtually no cost; likewise, such increased efficiencies, by minimizing the ongoing income stream required for comfortable subsistence, have the same liberating effect on ordinary people that access to land on the common did for their ancestors three hundred years ago."
...

Running throughout this book, as a central theme, has been the superior efficiency of the alternative economy: its lower burdens of overhead, its more intensive use of inputs, and its avoidance of idle capacity.
Two economies are fighting to the death: one of them a highly‐capitalized, high‐overhead, and bureaucratically ossified conventional economy, the subsidized and protected product of one and a half century’s collusion between big government and big business; the other a low capital, low‐overhead, agile and resilient alternative economy, outperforming the state capitalist economy despite being hobbled and driven underground. 
The alternative economy is developing within the interstices of the old one, preparing to supplant it. The Wobbly phrase “building the structure of the new society within the shell of the old” is one of the most fitting phrases ever conceived for summing up the concept."
.
Vai ser Mongo a resolver o problema do desemprego, e a enterrar de vez (até à próxima rodada) este modelo de Estado gigante que tudo quer saber, controlar e sugar.
.
Trechos retirados de:

• "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution - A Low‐Overhead Manifesto" de Kevin Carson

Só no Domingo na net, vários exemplos do irromper desse mundo alternativo, muito mais ágil  e resiliente... Mongo.

• 3-D Printing Comes To The Battlefield, And To Your Garage
• 3d-printer daily
• Quirky Snags $68 Million in VC Cash