[FRIAM] One of many things the country is fucked on

[Jochen Fromm]

Let me try to view it from a complexity perspective:After the Cold War we thought capitalism has won and communism lost, but it is not that simple. Now we see the drawbacks of capitalism too. Companies in capitalism were forced to reduce their costs and all the jobs went to China where most supply chains end now. Nature is exploited in capitalism globally on a unprecedented scale. The climate is broken and the world is burning. The world drowns in waste: plastic waste, nuclear waste, e-waste, ....The system is not only producing trash, it even sells trash wrapped in lies. Fast food corporations ruin our health by selling fake food and paying their workers extremely low slave wages. They spend a lot of money for ads and marketing though, but marketing can be considered as the art of lying. Amazon has successfully destroyed all bookstores and pays its workers in fulfillment centers not enough to make a living. Facebook aka Meta helps to destroy democracy while Mark Zuckerberg enjoys his life in his giant estate in Hawaii.Gil is right, the world is broken in many ways. Obviously we need to support our politicians in understanding the mess and in finding ways to fix it. Complexity science helps us to study complex systems on a large scale, to understand how they work, how they interact and how they can fail. The SFI in Santa Fe is known worldwide as a promoter for work in this important area, even if it might appear as a shabby or boring building to local residents.-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com> Date: 1/14/22  05:31  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] One of many things the country is fucked on Gil,I love you, man. Maybe a little less gratuitous graphic imagery in the rants. Extra points if you can tie the rants to some kind of Complexity perspective -  Not that that is too common here. :-)-Stephen_______________________________________________________________________Stephen.Guerin at Simtable.comCEO, Simtable  http://www.simtable.comt1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828twitter: @simtablezoom.simtable.comOn Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:31 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com> wrote:The maslows are just fucked. Reason number 99999 out of googolplex.To save myself a lot of mental wear and tair. and to save some on gass. I had hoped I could shop amazon pantry. for at least some of it.-a lot of the basics: breakfast cerials, or bagels aint available for SNAP,or even at all where I am geographically speaking. I guess bozo the the clown doesn't consider santa fe a real place. Welcome to club ahole.-Snack stuff is equally hit and mis for just being available-same for cleaning sprays and gelsOh but I can get my cookies and MnMs on all I want.The very fact that 500 some odd twats even consider a weekly alowence er um sorry "Universal income" as a question. Is just fucking stupid.  If they can't even get around to, uh ya know fixing the economy, having universal healthcare and blah blah. They sure the fuck can get the havenots like yours truely a god damn alowence. my SDI from inflation just don't go all that far. And trumpster types winge about 'oh being lazy blah blah' .they see the news, they know, just as well as this list does.  Jobs sucked a fat dick back in 2014 because of slave-wages. they suck more now because of that, and covid reasons. Plus fact is not 100% of people can work if they want to. Just not enough slots to do that.I fail to understand why it is that with a super fragile ecosystem home delivery is just a basic. Getting out for fresh is great. Telling what's left of air to get reked not so much.-Me the one sane dude left.

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