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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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. </span>Il Duce!</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Steve Smith <sasmyth@swcp.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 28, 2022 10:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Automata with FFT</font>
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<div>Glen -<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I saw a good little joke this morning, which echoes SteveS' nihilistic argument from convenience:
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"Why do you have a job at a private company, buy food from a chain grocery store, and have a smartphone from a monopolistic tech company if you hate #capitalism so much?"
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"Excuse me Mr. Cow, why are you at a factory farm if you don't want to get eaten?"
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(Obviously, it's not "Mr. Cow", but whatever.) Are we cows? Really? Or are we more plastic creatures who *can* undermine and retool the reigning forcing structures like Amazon (or "the government")?
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<p>Particularly apt given my last rant (being composed as you composed this one?). FWIW I don't mean it to be nihilistic but (mildly) shaming enough that maybe more of us *will* consider that we might want to look for alternatives to the "forcing structures"
you reference... but smart-bois like us seem to be struggling mightily with the topic, how would we expect Mr. Cow (or Ms. Sheeple) to get traction? Mr. Libertarian (or Q or Rogan or???) will surely hijack any attempts to do so by the plebian hordes? Now
I *am* being nihilistic/dystopian... consider it a challenge, not a conversation stopper?<br>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s">Epic 2014 "Googlezon"
</a>short video still plays well in spite of being composed (prophetically) in 2004. It is more responsive maybe to EricS's point about the failed News business (Mediascape).</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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