[FRIAM] Automata with FFT

[Steve Smith]

On 9/28/22 10:38 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Amazon is almost always easier and faster than a local business that 
> have thin inventory and higher margins.  A local business is a place 
> get COVID. I find I usually order hardware and equipment online from 
> Home Depot because the store inventory is kept thin on purpose (like 
> because it is stolen).  This is why Amazon is on top.   It is a better 
> way to do business and they are really good at it.
I still buy from local businesses as much as I can *so they will be 
there when I want/need them*...   I also find ordering online and 
picking up at my front door exquisitely more convenient "in the moment", 
whether it is Amazon or Home Depot or Autozone.  But then there are 
those times when I don't want to wait a day or three for the plumbing 
part that gets my bathroom back to working and it would really suck if 
the (Ace) Hardware store run by the local pueblo were closed (they 
closed a *lot* during COVID and during the "great resignation" we are 
still in).
>
> Not everyone is a cow.   We are selected and self-selected into 
> organizations were our personalities and abilities work.  Some are 
> farmers, some are cows.   When the cows are left to wander, they get 
> frustrated and call for farmers. Il Duce!

You sound a lot like John Galt!


And just to double-down on the "aphorisms":  "when you own a cow, the 
cow owns you".   I think it goes for golden geese also.   And I think 
maybe Mr. Putin is maybe going to get a kick in the teeth by the 
golden-goose-cow he has owned now for 30? years...

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