Real Economy is Physical

Economics is an engineering challengerefine/recycle, and put into use ever rising
The Wall Street vs Main Street dichotomy hasquantity of natural resources for mass
been so overused in the news that it is sickening.construction of high tech farms throughout the
It is time to replace this loaded married coupleworld. With enough energy and materials enclosed
terminology with another. The first reason for thisfarming with artificial sunshine/weather control is
is that WS vs MS split has now become a politicalmore than possible from the Sahara desert to
slogan and a heuristic and thus does not promotethe frozen tundras. Keep increasing numbers and
thoughtfulness. The second more importantquality of these farms until vast majority of
reason is that it obscures the reality of what thepeople spend almost no caloric energy and
real economy is.productive time working to feed themselves.
"Wall Street" has come to symbolize justKeep in mind that organic chemical free food in
meaningless paper shuffling gambling that is thethese farms is only a question of cheap energy
financial sector. "Main Street" apparently includesand materials. There is absolutely no need to send
everything else such as telemarketing, McDonaldsfood thousands of miles across the planet and
service, prostitution, web design, and of coursestuff it full of preservatives so this mummified
industrial production. Politicians tend to lump servicefood survives the journey.
industry like catering (and other demeaning4) Utilize same rising level of energy and labor
unpleasant tasks that poor people are forced intofreed from farming to build ever rising number of
to not die of starvation or exposure) and actualhigh tech places of learning throughout the world.
industry like engine part manufacture together.Keep improving the efficiency of these places of
Since financial sector is a service sector (smartlearning as one does the farms. One assumes a
people overworking in mind numbing meaninglesstype of modular construction so parts of the
tasks to make the rich richer) we see how WSplaces of learning and the high tech farms can be
vs MS is not a real dichotomy at all due to therecycled every few years and replaced with
enormous overlap in classification.newer systems.
5) Utilize the mind power of billions of newly
Will the real economy please stand up?educated people to build better systems of
I have written how the field of economics thepower plant part production to keep churning out
way we know it today is so wasteful andmore energy generating sources and to
separated from real empirical investigation as toreorganize socioeconomics to that end.
require the term stupid. Any Western EconomicsRinse repeat. Rinse repeat. Rinse repeat. Rinse
101 course will still dutifully inform that it is a studyrepeat. Rinse repeat until the solar system is
on how to deal with allocation of finite resources.colonized and humanity is in a post-scarcity
In that, economists not only failed but have madetranshuman world. Keep constructing better
the global situation much worse. Westernenergy sources beyond this point as well naturally.
economists are not only as ideological as SovietAll human politics should be directed towards
economists were but have now devolved to thepower generation. This means more engineers
level of historians who study past moves madeand scientists in government instead of lawyer
by powerful/wealthy people. When they are notplayboys. Chinese leadership is full of engineers
busy defending themselves as real scientistsand this is reflected in China's growth rate.
through utilization of advanced statistics (to studyCurrent batch of economists should be driven out
decisions made by oligarchs as if they were orbitsof government policy decision making as one
of planets) they are cheerleaders and cautiouswould drive out the clergy giving advise to the
financial planners for rich people who don't like togovernment. Every government should have an
think. An analogy can be made with Frenchengineering ministry and we should hear of
generals confident that the Maginot line will hold"president's engineering advisers" instead of
against the tried and true offensive methods. It iseconomic advisers. This is the only way to
no surprise that in the latest crisis of capitalism,prevent large scale starvation for a large part of
most people regardless of their class have losthumanity in the relatively near future (not even
money. Economics today is not only failing thementioning maintaining living standards).
poor but a large portion of the very rich as wellThe side effects of such energy driven policy
(who then find themselves one day with only thewould of course be the possibility of other
grand stories of their parents).engineering marvels in the aid of construction of
The term economics has been tainted to such athe power plants and places of learning. Some
degree that it may be too late to reclaim it. Letsexamples are frictionless magnetic levitation
look at the definition of another word and see if ittransport methods. Even today, high speed trains
has any application to dealing in a world of finiteare already cutting into airline profits as seen by
material and human resources.80% drop in airfares in parts of China. To make
"Engineering - The creative application of scientificfull circle, the goal of economics should always
principles to design or develop structures,have been to allow humans to spend next to
machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes,zero caloric energy on travel, food, education,
or works utilizing them singly or in combination; orsafe/pleasant shelter, etc. Instead humanity saw
to construct or operate the same with fulla worsening of their situation where even people
cognizance of their design; or to forecast theirin the Western oligarchies spend a lot of their
behavior under specific operating conditions; all ascaloric energy to get paper to exchange for
respects an intended function, economics oftraveling from point A to point B. If this continues
operation and safety to life and property."only the rich will be able to have relatively
Now we're getting somewhere.It appears thatpleasant transcontinental travel (with the poor
economists have wanted to be engineers all alongbeing crammed into large slow moving ships like in
but at some point wandered off into the land ofthe 19th century if they scrape enough for a
the stupid in an effort to create some ideologicalticket).
justification for the Cold War (follow the moneyThe goal of all governments historically is to
trail of rich people or their puppet governmentconstantly raise the minimum level of material
organs funding the research of these bravecomfort for their citizenry. This means an energy
"scientists"). Of course after a couple ofdriven policy. Governments that fail in this goal are
generations (of economics being a creativealways replaced sooner or later. The transition
attempt to demonstrate to the world whyperiod from today to tomorrow will require all
Western oligarchy should continue) this mutatedefforts towards nuclear power. Even the
pseudo-science has become entrenched.American oligarchs understand the precariousness
Youngsters on the scene either would not beof their position as shown by president Obama's
hired to teach if they disagreed with theadoption of McCain's nuclear energy policy in his
pseudo-science faculty or wanted to demonstratestate of the union speech. Yes, solar has to be
how much of the nonsense they understand andpursued but only as a bell and whistle to the
thus left their brain at the door to please thenuclear power plant production. If one looks at
older generations of these so called academics.how much land area is needed for wind/solar (and
Most people assume that the point of economicpower needed to extract resources to then
advice would be to make everybody better offmake parts for the wind/solar machines) to make
materially in the end. This means makeas much energy one modern power plant, there
everybody in either one nation, region, or theis no contest. Green tech today is but another
whole world have more access and control overbubble for Wall Street and is a dead end
resources which in turn would make the averageeconomically and environmentally (solar for
human being on the planet healthier, moreinstance requires enormous amount of water that
educated, happier, and better able to make usecould be used to produce nutrient rich food).
of his or her physiological talents forNuclear energy power plants provide the most
self-actualization or profit.energy bang for the energy buck. Building them is
Only engineering can do that. Humanity's only waybetter/cleaner for the planet and the only chance
of dealing with finite resources is to better utilizehumanity has to live until fusion reactors and
these resources. This requires ever rising level ofspace based power supplies are constructed and
energy available to humanity to operate machines.are operational. It is no wonder that British
The process is very simple:oligarchy are completely against them as they
1) Always develop new ways to makewant to promote "conservation" rather than
construction of power plants faster and cheaper.expansion and thus preservation of the current
One assumes mass scale production of parts tonasty neo-feudal world order. Americans in the
make power plants. The goal is to pop them out1950s understood the possibilities of nuclear
like one does a supercomputer with periodicpower and that is why they thought we'd be in a
retooling as better machines to make parts aredrastically different place today as a species. If
invented (Japanese lead the way currently inwe stop listening to economists and expose them
replacing even the cheapest of human assemblyas the charlatans that they are, it is still
line workers so factories can run almost full time).possible.The only main street is material industrial
2) Keep increasing production of ever moreproduction with energy generation as primary
efficient and powerful power plants.focus.
3) Utilize ever rising levels of energy to extract,