O desafio da proliferação (parte I)

Assim como o morcego desenvolveu o sonar, assim como o leopardo desenvolveu as suas pintas, assim como o rinoceronte desenvolveu a sua couraça, os humanos desenvolveram a economia.

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A economia e a biologia tratam da mesma coisa.

"Spencer’s principle of “the instability of the homogeneous” (Spencer 1900). Given a homogeneous object, different accidents will happen to different parts of it, producing a heterogeneous object, (Moi ici: A metáfora da Torre de Babel) or, in the terms we develop in this book, a more complex one." 

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"The history of life presents three great sources of wonder. One is adaptation, the marvelous fit between organism and environment. The other two are diversity and complexity, the huge variety of living forms today and the enormous complexity of their internal structure. Natural selection explains adaptation.

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E fazendo lembrar a evolução da  Dr Kid (reposicionamento) e das árvores cladísticas:

"Diversity and complexity could also be mutually reinforcing. As species diversity increases, niches become more complex (because niches are partly defined by existing species). The more complex niches are then filled by more complex organisms, which further increases niche complexity, and so on."

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"In any evolutionary system in which there is variation and heredity, there is a tendency for diversity and complexity to increase, one that is always present but may be opposed or augmented by natural selection, other forces, or constraints acting on diversity or complexity."

Trechos retirados de "Biology's First Law - The Tendency for Diversity & Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems" de Daniel McShea e Robert Brandon.
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Continua.

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...

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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."

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"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.""

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"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."

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"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?