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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Page #7
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In fact, if we step back far enough
you will realize that the GDP
not only doesn't reflect real public or social health
on any tangible level
it is, in fact, mostly a measure
of industrial inefficiency
and social degradation.
And the more you see it rise, the worse things are becoming
with respect to personal, social
and environmental integrity.
You have to create problems to create profit.
There is no profit under the current paradigm
in saving lives, putting balance on this planet
having justice and peace or anything else.
There is just no profit there.
There's an old saying -
Pass a law and create a business'.
Whether you are creating a business for a lawyer or whatever.
So, crime does create
business just like destruction creates
business in Haiti.
We have now roughly 2,000,000 people incarcerated
in this country (USA)
and of those many are in prisons run
by private corporations:
Corrections Corporation of America, Wackenhut
who trade their stock on Wall Street
based upon how many people are in jail.
Now that's sickness.
But that is a reflection of what
this economic paradigm calls for.
So what exactly does this economic paradigm call for?
What is it that keeps our economic system going?
Consumption.
Or more accurately- Cyclical Consumption.
When we break down the
foundation of classic market economics
we are left with a pattern of monetary exchange
that simply cannot be allowed to stop
or even substantially slowed
if the society as we know it
is to remain operational.
There are three main actors on the economic stage:
the employee, the employer
and the consumer.
The employee sells labor to the employer for income.
The employer sells its production services, and hence goods,
to the consumer for income
and the consumer, of course, is simply another role
of the employer and employee
spending back into the system
to enable the cyclical consumption to continue.
In other words, the global market system is based on
the assumption that there will always be enough
product demand in a society
to move enough money around at a rate
which can keep the consumption process going.
And the faster the rate of consumption
the more so-called economic growth is assumed
and so the machine goes...
But, hold on -
I thought an economy was meant to, I don't know...
"Economize"?
Doesn't the very term have to do with preservation
and efficiency and a reduction of waste?
So how does our system, which demands consumption
and the more the better, efficiently preserve
or "Economize" at all?
Well... it doesn't.
The intent of the market system is, in fact, the exact opposite
of what a real economy is supposed to do,
which is efficiently and conservatively orient
the materials for production and distribution
of life supporting goods.
We live on a finite planet, with finite resources
where, for example, the oil we utilize took
millions of years to develop...
where the minerals we use took billions of years to develop.
So... having a system that deliberately promotes
the acceleration of consumption
for the sake of so-called "economic growth"
is pure ecocidal insanity.
Absence of waste, that's what efficiency is.
Absence of waste?
This system is more wasteful than all the other
existing systems in the history of the planet.
Every level of life organization and life system
is in a state of crisis and challenge
and decay or collapse.
No peer-reviewed journal in the last 30 years
will tell you anything different:
that is that every life system is in decline
as well as social programs...
as well as our water access.
Try to name any means of life that
isn't threatened and endangered...
You can't.
There really isn't one and that's very, very despairing.
But we haven't even figured out the causal mechanism.
We don't want to face the causal mechanism.
We just want to go on. You know that's where insanity is
where you keep doing the same thing over and over again
even though it clearly doesn't work.
So you're really
dealing with not an economic system
but I would go so far as to say an anti-economic system.
[The Anti-Economy]
There is an old saying that the competitive
"create the best possible goods at the lowest possible prices"...
This statement is essentially the incentive concept
which justifies market competition
based on the assumption that the result
is the production of higher quality goods.
If I was going to build myself a table from scratch
I would naturally build it out of the best
most durable materials possible, right?
With the intent for it to last as long as possible.
Why would I want to make something poor
knowing I would have to eventually do it again
and expend more materials and more energy?
Well, as rational as that may seem in the physical world
when it comes to the market world
it is not only explicitly irrational
it is not even an option.
It is technically impossible to produce
the best of anything
if a company is to maintain a competitive edge
and hence remain affordable to the consumer.
Literally everything created and set for sale
in the global economy is immediately inferior
the moment it is produced
for it is a mathematical impossibility
to make the most scientifically advanced, efficient
and strategically sustainable products.
This is due to the fact that the market system
requires that "cost efficiency"
or the need to reduce expenses
exists at every stage of production.
From the cost of labor, to the cost
of materials and packaging and so on.
This competitive strategy, of course
is to make sure the public buys their goods
rather than from a competing producer
...which is doing the exact same thing
to also make their goods both competitive and affordable.
This immutably wasteful consequence of the system
could be termed:
Intrinsic Obsolescence.However, this is only one part of a larger problem:
A fundamental governing principle of market economics
one you will not find in any textbook, by the way
- Is the following:
Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan
longer than what can be endured
in order to continue cyclical consumption.
In other words, it is critical that stuff breakdown,
fail and expire within a certain amount of time.
This is termed - "Planned obsolescence"...
Planned obsolesce is the backbone of the underlying market
strategy of every goods producing corporation in existence.
While very few, of course
would admit to such a strategy outright
what they do is mask it within the
Intrinsic Obsolescence phenomenon just discussed,
while often ignoring, or even suppressing
new advents in technology
which might create a more sustainable, durable good.
So, if it wasn't wasteful enough
that the system inherently cannot allow the most
durable and efficient goods to be produced,
Planned Obsolescence deliberately
recognizes that the longer any good is in operation
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