Peoplenomics

Million Mile & 100 MPG Cars. In today’s chapter we take on some of the most vexing design-balancing problems of all.  Though not limited to cars, the design tradeoffs are easy to understand and they translate well to other transport modalities such as ocean-going vessels and airplanes, as our quest for “Good old-fashioned American Quality” continues through the Seven Major Systems of Life.

First, though, the usual headlines and ChartPack as the helium-laced markets can’t seem to get enough of themselves and the prospects of cheaper money.

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The Trouble with McMansions. Today with launch into some interesting aspects of trying to nail-down just what “quality” is in homes.  No, it’s not 2″ deep well-padded deep splush white carpet.

First, though, a couple of headlines and a look at the charts.  Bean up and on to our….

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Big report today: Well over 5,000 words plus 29 graphics so it may load a bit slow… What we have is a complete step-by-step on how to put in some home deep water culture (DWC) hydroponics and a big discussion in the chart section about whether the G-20 is driving global stock prices, or whether the US is “leading.”  Damn tough one to decide, that ‘un.

Oh, like that’s not enough?  Fresh CPI figures out from the Labor Department, too.  (Reminds me of the old broadcast journalist “Rip N. Reed” who was rumored to have been a WSU b/j grad…)

So two cups and maybe three as we roll though what matters minus the ILRF (idiot level ratings fluff).

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Survivors can’t rule out famine. Although what will really happen in the long-term is out of everyone’s reach, if we are to transition out of a less monetized existence, there will be widespread social risk.  One of the largest of these is “food risk.”

Not just the risks with a pesticide lawsuit, nor the idea of “terminator seeds” being weaponized, or with tariffs on food items (esp from Mexico) – or over-slowing the labor sources needed for production and harvest.

The problem is most complicated and we are probably less prepared for a breakdown of the food supply than at any point in recent history.  Remember, the Great Depression was also called “The Hungry Years” in America.

For your reading list:  The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America.

Today, we look at how monetization has screwed up the future of food and strategies to take-back some personal control.  After headlines and a few charts along the way…

Then, at the end of the report, some “woo-woo” detective work…

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Lies about Money and Labor.  There are a couple of axioms that we roll through not to mention the various kinds of “money” out there.  World does great at optimizing senseless digits.  But average work-hours to live numbers?  Forgetaboutit!

Our current fave is pseudo-money – the made-up diggery digital spunk.  Which, if you argue the point means you don’t know the carbon footprint of bit-mining. Rape resource to make-up hash codes?  AYSM?  That  makes crypto-fallacies the most environmentally damaging industrial waste (with the least return) ever invented by mankind.

A few headlines before going full-spleen today, but eventually we made the ultimate “Environmentalist Observation:”  The whole world has gone wild resource-stripping because we are optimizing “money” (and digits) instead of “minimizing labor.”  Stupid choice, ain’t it?  But we are a what kind of society?  Anti-smart.

(Which may explain why we are all busting-butt for 90-hours a week just to break-even.  Not our fault, except for the part where we fail to challenge the crooked business model imprinted on us from birth.  As we shall elucidate upon momentarily…

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Today: Limits to Growth:  People, Resources, and Money.  But, far more important, in our “Replaying 1929” charts, we have this week a broken critical support and the gates of hell may be getting ready to open earlier than anyone planned.

We’ll run you through the charts and a prediction of an S&P 500 below 2,000 after a couple of headlines and yes, more coffee!

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