Whoda thunk it?

Actors get it. The rest of the public sphere, including “independent” journalists, doesn’t get it.

Whoda thunk it? Hollywood understands the world better than anyone else with a public voice? I certainly never thunk it until a few months ago when I heard the Hollywood types at the Ankler talking plain truth about “the” “virus”.

Now Franny shows that she understands the AI problem deeply and correctly, and also understands profit vs Share Value correctly. The “independents” don’t understand this CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE.

Leftists love what they call “communism” because their delusion of “communism” is anti-profit. This is DIAMETRICALLY WRONG. The Soviet system was deeply and exclusively based on profit, while our system grudgingly allows profit when it doesn’t interfere with exponentially rising Share Value.

Businesses seeking profit are not nice, but their actions must be nice.

Profit means making things that sell. In the immortal words of the Philco advice to dealers,

SELL MERCHANDISE THAT DOESN’T COME BACK TO CUSTOMERS WHO DO.

When you MAKE things that SELL, you have to insure that the customers can BUY what you SELL. This requires you to pay your workers decently and use them carefully. Profit is a closed loop.

Share Value breaks the loop and destroys negative feedback, which means it destroys life.

From 1933 to 1983 shareholders were CONSTRAINED BY LAW to pay attention to profit, just as broadcasters were CONSTRAINED BY LAW to avoid Machiavellian dividers.

After 1980 both constraints disappeared. Nixon laid the ground, then Reagan and Clinton finished the job. The tech tyrants have maximized both of these abandonments. They take Share Value to the extreme and they take dividing to the extreme. Actors and writers were doing fairly well until the movie companies were bought by tech tyrants in the last decade. Before that, movie companies operated in the old closed-loop way, making movies that customers wanted and selling them to customers who would return week after week.

The tech tyrants HATE PROFIT and insist on doing pure math, uncontaminated by horrible Negative Externalities like actors and customers.

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Steinbeck famously said that corporations would can salmon with ledgers if they could. Now they can can with ledgers, so they do can with ledgers. He DIDN’T imagine a time when corporations would write novels and movies and dances with ledgers. Now they can can-can, so they do.

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Later: Franny also understands the basic purpose of life better than either “side” does.

People want to work. People want to make a living.

Working is life. Every cell and gut bacterium and organ and individual and culture is designed to work for its living. Life-giving cultures start from this assumption. Both modern “sides” intentionally destroy this purpose. Modern nonsense (Universal Basic Income, Bitcoin, Romney’s 47% Takers crap) shows a total misunderstanding. Both “sides” start from the assumption that people want to do nothing. The “left” says this is good, the “right” says it’s bad. It’s neither good nor bad, just totally false.