tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post4920443920801289677..comments2022-10-06T10:26:11.769-07:00Comments on Epistablog: Couch Potatoes of the World Uniteshanenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14051373688311508531noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-54426662130698506822022-10-06T10:26:11.769-07:002022-10-06T10:26:11.769-07:00Basically I regard this blog as yet another dead e...Basically I regard this blog as yet another dead end, but because it still comes up in some websearches, I'll include a link to the latest version. It's at https://wt.social/post/the-future-of-work/fj867ib5435373094904shanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051373688311508531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-33141176951522081282020-03-08T13:56:05.970-07:002020-03-08T13:56:05.970-07:00I glanced over it, didn't detect any probable ...I glanced over it, didn't detect any probable spam advertising and therefore validated it, but I don't feel any motivation to read and study your comment more seriously. It sounds like you might be sincere, but who are you and why would I care? <br /><br />On that basis, I'm only going to respond to the part that caught my eye, your reference to AC on Slashdot. Certainly not a defense of your reputation or a motivation to read your long and possibly thoughtful comment. There are only two exceptions I make for ACs on Slashdot. One is AFTER a lot of other people have modded an AC comment into visibility (most often for "Funny"). The other is when an interesting comment is unclear without context that leads into an AC comment.<br /><br />However, I also feel that I should apologize for deleting what might have been some substantive thoughts without giving them the consideration they might have deserved. Oh wait. To whom could I apologize?<br /><br />I've always had a basically negative attitude towards abuse of anonymity, but it's probably exacerbated this week by Jaron Lanier. Though I disagree with him on many issues, on this topic we seem largely in agreement... However he didn't really consider the specific cases where anonymity can be justified. In my analyses, so far every justification I've found for secrecy is based on prior secrecy.<br /><br />Don't know if you're abusing anonymity. Don't care because AC is not a "real" person to me. However I know that the topic of anonymity is definitely peripheral to this topic...<br /><br />Oh wait again. Now I see a way to make the topic more relevant... Should a "couch potato" be able to contribute to the economy on an anonymous basis? Many ideas come to mind, but no clear answer. Leaning against because of the porn that paid for the Internet (as stated by an ISP founder I used to work for before he was murdered).shanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051373688311508531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-35196843434348111372020-03-07T06:07:56.626-08:002020-03-07T06:07:56.626-08:00"Let's start by analyzing economic activi..."Let's start by analyzing economic activity and classifying it into three categories. There is an essential category... but my real questions are about the numbers. I've been looking for this kind of information for some years, and so far I've been coming up dry."<br /><br />"Well, interesting to see how many people have read it, but apparently no one has a lead to such research? Or perhaps more likely no one can understand what I'm asking about?"<br /><br />Part 1 addressed these questions giving empirical data from people who have lived within certain limits. If that was not the kind of data you wanted, cool, you should have said that.<br /><br />"A more advanced society will do this more efficiently. Think of it as an average of the total working time... 2 hours per week, and the rest of the economic activity is for other purposes...relatively less advanced society [need to spend more time]may require 30, 50, or even 80 hours of weekly work..."<br /><br />While part 1 might address the hours a week element to some degree, part 2 was meant to address the philosophical question of what is essential and for whom? I tried to capture skills and how that impacts the amount of hours you need to work in a lifetime to create enough reserves to then not have to work. I also noted that essential is a matter of opinion. Is essential 2k cals and a 5x7 living area or is essential a swank roof top apartment in Greece looking over the sea with a nice slice of pizza and a beer? Basically part 1 gives a rough minimum resource level to hit somewhere in the typical middle class American/European life, assuming enough skill while part 2 captures that the data given in part 1 is likely wrong for the majority of people who hold different values and thus your categories (like "essential") need refining, at least to me. <br /><br />Your other categories also have similar issues and I tried to address those. What if free time creates a "RoI" purely due to a hobby becoming profitable? See video game esports. Could I have broken it apart more? Probably. But re-reading it now it still makes logical sense to me.<br /><br />Regarding being anonymous, I found this from link spam in a semi-related slashdot post. If you don't get /.'s great history of the anonymous coward, I suppose that's your failing. As for my choice to be a AC, I have not read enough of your blog to know if I want my name associated with it. Since Google required full names back in the day, I either put my full, googlable name up or I go AC. I went AC. I'm a coward by trade. If you really want to know me as a human add a contact me widget to your blogspot template and I could have emailed you directly. As a retired 35 year old, if I decide to go back to work someday I have to consider my future employer googling me. *shrug*. I am a member of ERE's forum, but have less than 30 posts to my name, so not exactly hugely active. Feel free to post this or delete it as you see fit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-4885858581060827452020-03-06T23:51:02.252-08:002020-03-06T23:51:02.252-08:00I feel like I should clarify why I removed that lo...I feel like I should clarify why I removed that long two-part comment. Mostly it was the "Anonymous" attribution. However, it was also rather incoherent. Rather suspect that it was actually disguised advertising, but tweaked to attempt to make it sound like it had some relationship to the blog, but not actually relevant. shanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051373688311508531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-14286182340773268272020-02-22T05:16:18.211-08:002020-02-22T05:16:18.211-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-57733441833439296302020-02-22T05:15:28.901-08:002020-02-22T05:15:28.901-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-84761862779870535532019-09-30T00:49:28.128-07:002019-09-30T00:49:28.128-07:00Kind of disappointed there's been so little re...Kind of disappointed there's been so little reaction to this joke over the years, but maybe that's partly because the google seems to be hiding all of my blogs, even when I know just what I'm searching for and where to look... <br /><br />Anyway, on today's visit I actually made a significant change to the subtitle. Where it now says "free time" it used to say "humanity", but I recently realized that time is the entire point.shanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051373688311508531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-69016640635431257702019-02-15T15:41:30.568-08:002019-02-15T15:41:30.568-08:00Upon reflection, I'll note that I regard most ...Upon reflection, I'll note that I regard most of this blog as covering Ekronomics 101. Since then, I've been "working on" two solution approaches that derive from the analytic perspective.<br /><br />One is for pro-freedom anti-cancer taxation. I think a properly designed progressive profits tax based on market share could encourage good corporations to reproduce by fission. One result would be more choices and more freedom in the market.<br /><br />The newer idea involves a guiding sales tax, where essential goods and services would be taxed at the lowest rate and recreational goods and services would be taxed at the highest rate, with investment-related stuff in the middle. <br /><br />The underlying principle there is that the government needs taxes to function, but taxing is more of a disincentive than a motivator. The good goals need to determine the total budget, but within the constraints it makes sense to use higher taxes "against" less desirable behaviors.shanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051373688311508531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-7208720848750177822013-06-13T00:03:48.288-07:002013-06-13T00:03:48.288-07:00Well, as of this date, the most optimistic claim o...Well, as of this date, the most optimistic claim of the google is that as many as 66 unique other people may have cast their eyes upon this comment, but none of them had any leads or questions... Too far out there, eh?<br /><br />Anyway, one more wrinkle involves considering the relative value and polarity of investments. It isn't just a form of the famous RoI (Return on Investment) thing, but that these kinds of economic models should also consider investments with negative polarities, spending that actually leads to future wastes of time. <br /><br />The interesting example that came to mind involved how to assess excess eating. Sometimes a bit of body fat will help you get past a tough time, but obesity will actually cost the bearer in the most definite form of time--obese people have lower life expectancies.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm continuing to look for traces of anyone studying such time-based economic theories, and haven't seen any leads in the two months since I posted this. I wish I remembered when I first started thinking about the topic, though I'm sure that the book called Doing Nothing by Tom Lutz greatly influenced my thinking on the topic, and that was over a year ago.shanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051373688311508531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327503364191493779.post-27796341172159508552013-05-03T21:02:56.459-07:002013-05-03T21:02:56.459-07:00Well, interesting to see how many people have read...Well, interesting to see how many people have read it, but apparently no one has a lead to such research? Or perhaps more likely no one can understand what I'm asking about?shanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051373688311508531noreply@blogger.com