Its a variation on Parkinson's Law (work expands to fill the time) ... "Economies expand to keep their populations sedated"
On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:17 PM Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nick, > > I suspect that if people only did what they 'need to do' the economy would > collapse. > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:34 AM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Colleagues, >> >> >> >> I have asked this question before and nobody has responded (for clear and >> good reasons, no doubt) but I thought I would ask it again. What exactly >> is this economy we are bent on reviving? What exactly is the difference in >> human activity between our present state and a revived economy. We can go >> to bars and concerts and football games? Is that the economy we are >> reviving? It seems to me that the difference between a “healty” economy >> and our present status consists possibly in nothing more than a lot of >> people frantically rushing about doing things they don’t really need to >> do? >> >> >> >> You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats >> were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and >> protected to see how the population would develop. They never got above >> two hundred. Infant mortality, etc., was appalling. Carnage. In the same >> space, a competent lab breeding organization could have kept a population >> of tens of thousands. >> >> >> >> Don’t yell at me. What fundamental proposition about economics do I not >> understand? >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> Nicholas Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology >> >> Clark University >> >> thompnicks...@gmail.com >> >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >> >> >> >> >> .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... >> .... . ... >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> > > > -- > Frank Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > 505 670-9918 > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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