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Weak Positioning

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The automobile industry relies on two components that it can not control. The car needs roads and fuel. This weakness means they depend on changes occurring out of their control and off their manufacturing cycle.

Roads and their rules are built and set for them. Paul and CATO would have the market do it, yet they won’t start the process themselves. I suppose they prefer to leave all that profit to some other economic free agent. How noble. How generous in spirit. Perhaps they aren’t such believers in the market. Perhaps they just don’t believe in their ability to swim in the market streams.

The fuel for cars was steam, electricity, even considered was soy oil. Oil won, big. Ever wonder why? The “market,” you say. A matter of “supply and demand,” perhaps.

So Childlike

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Like little children in the dark. Just after the lights go out. The storm brings them to tears. Crying about their foolish worries about the dark. Just after the lights go on, so brave. No longer needing comfort, they cling to their story books, ammo of corks and plastic pump guns. Kick off the covers. Jump bravely about. A little capitalist lays himself down to sleep. To dream of Reagan ‘n Rand, CATO ‘n ….. He does not need you now, but will again. many times his paper boat sinks.

A Difference

Posted on Posted in econocaste, paradox lost

Employees have life, money doesn’t.

People have interests, money only interest.

The company is a fiction created to accumulate funds and functions beyond the life of its original author. That fiction must be held up by the state and so too its market space must be held together by that same state. While capital may create jobs, it is workers that create things, manage processes. It is labor that buys and makes. It is, oddly, labor that provides Capital with the capital. Odder still, it is the evil, evil unions that continuously stream money to the Investment Vessels. And it is from those Vessels that the Priests of Capital drink so fully.