The Written Web

exists, hypertext, however,  not so much .. The written web replaced the blog. The blog was managed by a person who traveled from blog blog by links.. now those written pieces are hosted on commercial space.. you provide the filler to their ads or you buy off the space…

Facebook doesn’t seem to permit the buy off; you will never own any piece of Facebook .. that’s also the path of Reddit..you are filler. . Substack you buy, as you can with WordPress..

The commercial web gave you ease of technical and took away your rights of privacy and profit .. you no longer have control because the technology has control… The things of the world have always been the world; owners of the things , even if they are digital things, own you

TELLING TALES

again and again. Making them taller, making your shadow longer. Done to impress the civilian, the non-participant, the one on the sidelines. Making a grand stand.

The difference between the part-timer and the full-timer. The committed and the interested in getting a story to tell. A tattoo for table talk. These aren’t scars, the are scarves.

Much of this can be seen in all message/gossip boards.. both among the “bro-vets” and the pho-photogs. As much about glorification of their small efforts..

They bought the boots, the perfect laces, compass and map; have taken a course on following course, even going so far as hiring a guide, once. And, now, the laces are knot free, the map is in a drawer, somewhere. 

The online answer boards are the ending gasp of film, chemical lab photography. They wouldn’t believe this. They don’t believe it. How could they be the ones killing what they want to survive. With error. Error of fact. By error of purpose is the greater weight the new would have to overcome. 

Morning Arrow

… finding acolytes… deriving this question: why is it that we denigrate those who question our knowledge? Particularly found amongst innovation experts, teachers of business development laying claim to complete, rigorous knowledge of economics, certainly with regard superior to those amateur economist participating in an economy without PhD skills. War games without basic training.

It is best to avoid calling out: “people who denigrate modern economics – the neo-Marxists, the back-of-the-room scribblers, the wannabe-contrarian-dilletantes” from an endowed hot-tub.

does John and Jean Doe, who were mere Smithies in their daily job, stand a chance — have any luck. Their starting point is never the same. Choice is chuck and duck. Which grid do they play> Giffen, Marshall, Veblen <

The market is no place for economists — Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu “Anything Goes”

The invisible hand is taken at faith value ..[ AI TRANS took it at cliche value] https://books.google.ca/books?id=HAiMDU4qv0IC&pg=RA1-PA208&lpg=RA1-PA208#v=onepage&q&f=false

Flower Pot economics — works in small examples

Blackboard Jungle — lots of squiggles, easily erased.

Point out a market that achieved equilibrium, please.

The main results of this paper are two theorems stating very general conditions under
which a competitive equilibrium will exist. Loosely speaking, the first theorem
asserts that if every individual has initially some positive quantity of every com-
modity available for sale, then a competitive equilibrium will exist. The second
theorem asserts the existence of competitive equilibrium if there are some types
of labor with the following two properties: (1) each individual can supply some
positive amount of at least one such type of labor; and (2) each such type of
labor has a positive usefulness in the production of desired commodities. The
conditions of the second theorem, particularly, may be expected to be satisfied
in a wide variety of actual situations, though not, for example, if there is insuf-
ficient substitutability in the structure of production.
-- Existence of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy. Kenneth J. Arrow; Gerard Debreu, 1954