Umbrarchist

Peons are not supposed to have Net Worth. They are supposed to be in debt running on the treadmill. What do you think planned obsolescence in cars is for?

You silly goose!
Next you will be saying that we should have had mandatory accounting in high schools since 1950. 😱

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Until they block you. 🤣

But sometimes they block without even communicating. 🤔

It is not my fault that economics textbooks don't say much about the Net Domestic Product. 😱

ROFL

Putin looks like an old man!

Then what does Trump look like?

A walking corpse!?

Not intelligent enough to qualify as a zombie.

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What if the objective should be the creation and distribution of Wealth not Employment?

Instead we have created an economic power game that most people are supposed to lose. Why not have mandatory accounting in schools? It could have been done since 1950.

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They should discover that consumer depreciation should be in the Net Domestic Product equation first.

Oh no, now economists are pretending that they know aeronautics.

WWII fighter planes could do 400 mph. Shouldn't economists have figured out planned obsolescence in cars by 1980, ten years after the Moon Landing?

Where is car Depreciation Data since 1980, if not 1950?

NET Domestic Product anyone?

Economics makes more sense if regarded as a Power Game!

Accounting could have been mandatory in high schools since 1950. The traditional social structure has decided that most of us are supposed to be losers who do not know the script.

Screw the peons! 🤑

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It has just occurred to me that Consumer Depreciation could be for economists like the Epstein Files are for Trump.

Obvious but unmentioned "secret" not to be discussed. 😆

This is for all of the people up there who need power during the 14 days that the near side is the dark side I presume?

They need power to play their Pink Floyd albums.

Texas was too hot for Democrats so they ran to Chicago.

1980 was a decade after the Moon Landing. Shouldn't all economists have figured out planned obsolescence in automobiles by then?

So what does consumer depreciation have to do with economics, Now?

Marx mentioned depreciation a number of times in Das Kapital but there were no automobiles, THEN!

You mean Sun Tzu did not comprehend Game Theory?

There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995. How many are operational today? Where is the Annual Demand Side Depreciation Data for the US since Sputnik? What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Economists might be able to come up with reasonable numbers for cars if they tried because of all of the state DMVs. But refrigerators, televisions, all Durable Consumer Goods? What about for the entire planet? But NO! All of the Demand Side Depreciation for every country on the planet can just be ignored for 70 years. No problemo! How does Planned Obsolescence affect the planet and the economy? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. The Laws of Physics do not care about the difference between Capital and Consumer Goods. Ask an Economist! Ask ChatGPT! The road to serfdom is paved with BMWs.

"All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu

What do economists say about the planned obsolescence of durable consumer goods, like automobiles and washing machines?

Where is the data on Demand Side Depreciation?

There is not much mention of NET Domestic Product actually!

The oath says:
"defend the Constitution"

the issue is:
"enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC".

Is violation:
"Dereliction of Duty"?

So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do?

I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot.

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I guess "copper bottomed" no longer means what it used to. "Trump bottomed" has made it full of shit.
"Stable Genius" outsmarted itself.
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Fascinating!

It annoyingly fascinates me that Trump ever got elected in 2016. Except for the fact that the man is president, he is too Egotistically Stupid to bother paying attention to!

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Fascinating!

It annoyingly fascinates me that Trump ever got elected in 2016. Except for the fact that the man is president, he is too Egotistically Stupid to bother paying attention to!
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What if not having mandatory accounting in the schools is unethical?

Dbl-Entry Accounting is SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS old and everybody has to deal with money.

How many people are being ripped off via credit cards and do not know it?

There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995. How many are operational today? Where is the Annual Demand Side Depreciation Data for the US since Sputnik? What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Economists might be able to come up with reasonable numbers for cars if they tried because of all of the state DMVs. But refrigerators, televisions, all Durable Consumer Goods? What about for the entire planet? But NO! All of the Demand Side Depreciation for every country on the planet can just be ignored for 70 years. No problemo! How does Planned Obsolescence affect the planet and the economy? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. The Laws of Physics do not care about the difference between Capital and Consumer Goods. Ask an Economist! Ask ChatGPT! The road to serfdom is paved with BMWs.

Is there a mathematical model that takes Planned Obsolescence into account? Wouldn't that have to deal with Demand Side Depreciation?

I don't hear about NDP much.

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MAGestapo on the Loose!
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And what does physics do to any system regardless of what anybody wants?

I was surprised to find that Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. I search for it because our nitwit economists leave consumer Depreciation out of the Net Domestic Product equation.

Physics don't care!

We think about economics differently.

You talk as tho "The Market" is just the sellers. The buyers are just as much a part.

But as technology has gotten more complicated the sellers can hide more and more info.

"All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu

Mandatory Accounting in schools!!!

The road to serfdom is paved with BMWs!

Hayek lived long enough to see Planned Obsolescence in cars. I am not aware of his ever saying anything abt it. Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile. 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the US in 1995.

We are not in Keynesland anymore, Toto!

How can tech maintenance people not know about planned obsolescence? And not notice that Economists are technological illiterates? I was working for IBM around 1980 in the General Systems Division. The System/23 Datamaster in the upper right was to replace the older 5110 in the upper left. I was working the night shift when someone on the day shift set up both machines on a table. For customer demonstrations and sales I presume. I NeVeR saw the word 'benchmark' on IBM documentation so I decided to write my own and do some tests. I created a Bubble Sort program and Prime Numbers by Division program in BASIC. The old machine was almost twice as fast as the DM23. The DM23 used an 8-bit 8085 processor having 6000 transistors while the DisplayWriter, priced $1100 less than the DM23, in the lower left which used a 16-bit 8086 processor with 29,000. It was from the Office Products Division and was supposedly "just a word processor". IBM only provided WP software. However Digital Research, owned by Gary Kildall, supplied a CP/M-86 Boot Disc for $200. With the right software it might be 16 times as fast as the DM23. Compilers produce more efficient code than interpreters. In the lower right is the APC from NEC, a Japanese company. It was pretty much the same hardware combination as the DisplayWriter though it looked rather different. You could buy Two of them for less than the price of One DataMaster23. What would economists say about that?

What does "The Market" want? If the market cannot comprehend the product then the "Capitalist" can advertise junk.

I worked for IBM. Benchmarks are used to test performance. I never saw the word in IBM documentation. I had to write my own.

I tend to look at how technology makes changes possible.

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