tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post2831150303872134418..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Sinking Deeply into Chronic DisasterGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-44511552916328529432012-05-22T09:19:45.402-04:002012-05-22T09:19:45.402-04:00Der Skweruhls!Der Skweruhls!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-72243082567347412482012-05-22T07:55:32.216-04:002012-05-22T07:55:32.216-04:00Russell, I agree he's only talking about rearr...Russell, I agree he's only talking about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I posted it because I think it's so funny that TED won't.<br /><br />You will be wanting to check out this site: http://www.scarysquirrel.org/<br /><br />It kept me laughing for hours one day.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-7588055456986153702012-05-22T06:12:12.020-04:002012-05-22T06:12:12.020-04:00Good video.Good video.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-57410377739303553132012-05-21T21:02:53.975-04:002012-05-21T21:02:53.975-04:00My little one was distracting me so I may have mis...My little one was distracting me so I may have missed some important points, but I thought he was all about politics and struck me as making a very status quo type argument. Everything would be just fine if we distribute the money a little bit better.<br /><br />The rich getting richer is a natural outgrowth of networking effects. It is very similar to the large cities getting larger. Obviously tax codes reinforce the prevailing trend. To my mind, the better way to redistribute wealth, is to knock out the networks and go back to being redundant and less efficient.<br /><br />Depending on which numbers you look at you can either say that our economic system tapped out in the mid-1970s or early-1980s. IMO it is a combination of factors, declining pace of innovation (as some would say, we have plucked the low hanging fruit), and resource limits.<br /><br />Arguing about who should get what portion of a static, or diminishing pie, is not an irrelevant argument, but it is not going to get you back to the cheery post WW2 economy.<br />I read the Alderston piece you noted.<br /><br />http://alderstone3.com/?page_id=433<br /><br />He doesn’t mention various ocean current models. The Atlantic Conveyor belt argument could lead us to freeze to death, or the striations of the oceans could have us asphyxiating ourselves. On the plus side, the last time this happened (early Cretaceous) it opened the door to that dino favorite T-Rex to usurp the Allosaurids and coming to rule the Northern Hemisphere. It also lead to the rise of the Mosasaurs, but people just don’t seem to get as excited about them. Based on their performance at the critter proof bird feeders, my vote is for the squirrels to be our T-Rex-like replacements - but maybe just in the Northern Hemisphere.russell1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.com