Resource Cost Experiment
Resource cost as higher. Imagine each day you have access to 2 pieces of bread. Imagine you then have access to 0.5 pieces (1/2) piece of bread each day.
Thoughts are on how to maximize efficiency and meet a budget. The bread is now more costly to lose. If one loses a loaf they lose 4x as many days of 0.5 bread as when they had 2 pieces of bread a day. The value of bread had gone up – potentially due to the price of bread rising, or potentially due to lower wages, lower capacity to purchase. Loss is also more costly, losing 0.5 bread each more costly than losing 0.5 bread when have 2 slices of bread each day.
Imagine the rich in society increase the cost of bread and simultaneously lower wages and reduce workforces. There is likely a number at which historians and potentially religious authorities (Churches and Temples, those familiar with history) where this will become a liability for the rich. The idea is to increase profit, available resources not to generate the conditions for the next French Revolution.
Now is this thought experiment zero cost, inconsequential to the rich? Speaking about the problem facilitates the problem at times – if you talk about a depression and recession, will people save more and demand less? The capacity for the rich to charge is devalued – less power is less valuable – a battery with 25% power or a battery with 100% power. This is potentially why concessions are made for some, outliers or exceptions to the rule. Thoughts of the HBO Show Rome and Caesar talking about making a personal offer. If the right people are included in the profit (a subset of everyone that needs) then no big deal to increase costs and lower buying capacity?
My thoughts are about economics in a system that gets harder and harder – inflation and less jobs higher unemployment. Less to go around might equate to reduced supply and greater demand. Less to go around is not all more appreciation for a generous God, a God that is greater than 0 sum, a God that can fix things quickly, quickly in a way that makes fellow citizens in society A fee less, run closer to the grey margin as a way to make ends meet. Said another way reduced throughput has potential to lead to reduced throughput.
Thus lower prices, giving people more grace and ways to see better days has high potential for carry through that is valuable. The future of past 2000 at least in to 2025 is a future of automation that is IBD In By Design and relevant. Has the Church lead the charge on making sure people still feel included in society and haven’t been left as unvalued on the side of the street, homeless and destitute 2000-2025? Church out might have been worse and homeless tent cities across the nation is more than concerning – might and likely has had potential to reach past critical levels in non ideal ways with society.
That said if I had to bet on The Church will continue reinvesting in the same profit based system that funnels money and power into the hands of a few or will actually enable a future with less homeless combined with the increases in automation (Think Detroit and Auto-manufacturing) now turned up further by AI then I would probably be on status quo will be continued in non-ideal ways. Change is hard, change is less comfortable, change doesn’t always make ends meet – yet change is coming, IBD in by design, and will arrive sooner for some than others. Gives feeling of what gives God in practice – if one believes in a God capable of miracles, a God that is greater than a zero sum bullshit engine.
If the Church taught everyone math less, the congregation might have less capacity to max profit and leave each other with less. Yet not teaching math might equate to a slower, more inadequate military, which means weaker, potentially tastier to the next hell bent imperialist regime (easy target for Nazis as short hand). God says do right by each other, invest in Golden Rule and love to one another (love your neighbor) – yet in practice it might leave math teachers thinking, should I have taught them that?
Sure the things I have talked about here don’t factor into the violence in the World? Claim the Church has A-ed it?
Speed of up factors into reduced liability while money sits in bank accounts, really so hard to comprehend?
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