tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post6549855473225129538..comments2024-03-18T16:33:31.633+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Weekend Reading: Spare Capacity vs Efficiency - continued ...CityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-46306569114582777012020-06-01T09:52:28.676+01:002020-06-01T09:52:28.676+01:00"there was nothing cost effective about outso...<i>"there was nothing cost effective about outsourcing in the end"</i><br /><br />Just as there was nothing cheap about cheap labour, from back in the 50s and 60s to the present day. But the whole point of cheap labour is that <i>other people pay the price</i>.<br /><br />I bet white Americans wished they'd picked their own damn cotton, but the elites didn't ask them then, either, just brought them in.<br /><br />On that subject, it looks as if all the "Cummings broke lockdown!" people were abandoning social distancing en masse yesterday. Whatever happened to "no large gatherings"? <br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52868465<br /><br />"Protesters linked arms by the US Embassy"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-37523262872029448222020-06-01T09:15:20.157+01:002020-06-01T09:15:20.157+01:00Do apologise
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we...Do apologise<br />Posting from phone meant to write<br /><br />were in one sentence form...<br /><br />andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-3236823592440546562020-06-01T07:59:37.883+01:002020-06-01T07:59:37.883+01:00andrew - may not be needed to get your drift, but ...andrew - may not be needed to get your drift, but - <br />?? <i>were kn kne scentence form</i> ??<br /><br />shall be returning to your themes anonNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-28371723949326424882020-06-01T05:40:43.749+01:002020-06-01T05:40:43.749+01:00If you want a something done give the job to a bus...If you want a something done give the job to a busy man.<br /><br />If we'd had a busy manufacturing economy we wouldn't have been exposed to a foreign virus and would have been better able to deal with it anyway.<br /><br />There was nothing cost effective about outsourcing in the end, was there ? And it's only handed it all to Leties anyway. (Boris is a Lefty.)<br /><br />If we were a manufacturing economy mainstream parties couldn't entertain Greenism as voters wouldn't want it and being a mere 'service' economy with new social distancing measures has left us among the most economically exposed in this crisis.<br /><br />What to do ?<br /><br />Admit that lockdown was a mistake and lift it totally forthwith. I believe that the CCP were playing mind games with us in Wuhan.<br /><br />If vulnerable people want to continue to self shield then support them in doing so but on a voluntary basis.<br /><br />Then we have to plan for the really bad one. The Black Death that is inevitable if we carry on as we are. E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-35382696656682937762020-05-31T22:38:25.704+01:002020-05-31T22:38:25.704+01:00He makes the point that if you over optimise somet...He makes the point that if you over optimise something it may outperform now but underperform if anything changes.<br /><br />Again<br />And again<br />And again<br /><br />This is not a new idea. The extinction of the dinosaurs was not fhe first example.<br /><br />Two themes he did not develop that i wish he had were kn kne scentence form<br />1<br />Optimisation does not lead to efficiency; consider the dodo<br />2<br />Efficient species and civilisations have been continually overwhelmed by 'barbarians at the gates'; in a globalised society where there is no (even notionally) terra icognita for the discontented to go and become barbarians, what then - do we wiat for a meteorite? <br />andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-28954237612745199862020-05-31T21:17:20.899+01:002020-05-31T21:17:20.899+01:00I was happy before and I want it back the way it w...I was happy before and I want it back the way it was thank you.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.com