Economists want price agents to be nonexistent: they want a world of producing agents, reacting to market prices by -- producing for 'em, and by interaction and other market mojo, profits will vanish into consumer surplus through price-compensation.
Nonsense? Of course it's nonsense, total nonsense, a
perfect fan dance for the rise of the modern free range corporation,
with its oligpolist "active pricing". Blame ole Leon and Francis here,
if you must:
... but 'tis a wondrous set of notions, eh? -- For a society still married to commodity production and its filthy commerce.
Imagine if it were doable. Imagine if the impersonal deistic market figment really could, by its own spontaneous means, liquidate all profit demons and their bubbles of rent?
Hey, I have a way to make it work.
Let the infernal machines run all markets -- we embodied human-capitals, by ones or by many's, org'ed or un-org'ed, wage-slaved or yeoman-iac, get to submit our products as commodities, just like now, but to an automatic pricing system, one that simply does its thing and "moves your stuff".
You'd watch it like a game board, I suspect, or a slot machine
The tiny Nipponese marketeer below embodies a student-prince dream of mine -- only mine could climb skyscrapers and enter your office or apartment through the window and stay there until you bought a burger.
Comments (6)
Jeezus H. on a Segway.
Just when I think the USA is about the most fucked-up nation on the planet, the Japanese go and pull off something even more brain-curdling.
Out, my eyes.
Posted by Mike Flugennock | July 29, 2009 11:01 PM
Posted on July 29, 2009 23:01
odd synchro
http://www.counterpunch.org/moses07292009.html
this at c punch
another mind grasps the kick up in job rations:
" The helpful thing about cap-and-trade logic is that it recognizes some> system-wide quantity that is a matter of public concern and provides some real-time market pressure on that basis. " g moses
dead right
making a system wide level of job holders/hours
an obligation of the corporate system
an obligation to carry say 125 milion full time or full time equivalent jobs
but enforced by markets not taxes
to maintain over all employment levels
you gotta buy a warrant to lay off by buying it from some corporation
that has just hired an equivalent
this type of reform is both flexible cheap and open to monitor thru the payroll tax system
the firm that hires gets a reward and the hirer's reward goes up/down
just as the firer's cost goes up/down as system wide firing pressure goes> up/down
added dynamic aspect
if the system is required to net x new hires per existing staff
u either match your quota or you gotta buy a warrant
again this rewards the fastest job growing firms and penalizes the fastest firing firms
example:
uncle sets say a quaterly target
of one new hire per 60 employess
for all firms with over 200 employees the details are open to mucho flex
all this in the spirit of
vickrey collander lerner
with their master mark up cap and trade notion
control inflation control job opportunity
macro op final demand
and
u free the class strugglers
to up pitch
the battle agin exploitation
Posted by op | July 30, 2009 8:05 AM
Posted on July 30, 2009 08:05
moses' plan
" Get a license to carry capital only if you take out an obligation to return a portion of labor costs. This is only fair, since capital is no good to anyone without the jobs that will be needed to employ it. You just promise to pay for those jobs so long as your capital permit shall last. If your business plan later calls for capital development to eliminate jobs, then you either keep paying the labor costs you agreed to earlier or you trade that labor cost off to some other capital carrier."
Posted by op | July 30, 2009 8:23 AM
Posted on July 30, 2009 08:23
The original post, and the two follow-up comments seem to have nothing to do with each other, and are maybe even diametrically opposed, but brilliant individually. Please don't dont add any new enlightenment, until I figure out these bits.
Posted by hce | July 30, 2009 11:28 AM
Posted on July 30, 2009 11:28
Hce;
U are on the money
The two visions are opposed to each other
The job floor
tile and trade
Scheme follows from our present corporate structure
The robomarket
Turns pricing into a mechanical groping
Your choice distopia
Posted by op | July 30, 2009 12:49 PM
Posted on July 30, 2009 12:49
Do you think their might be a "Pleasure" model?
Posted by Son of Uncle Sam | July 31, 2009 7:57 AM
Posted on July 31, 2009 07:57