Let me start with an update. As you know, I’ve been following the story of Jennifer Carroll, the Florida Lieutenant Governor (Republican, of course) who is accused of having sex during office hours with her travel arranger, a lady named Beatriz Ramos. The last couple of times I’ve written about it, I have bemoaned the lack of detail on what “compromising position” they were found in, and what Beatriz Ramos actually looked like.
Beatriz Ramos is the redhead, Lt. Governor Carroll is the black lady
Thank you, Gawker!
She doesn’t quite live up to the Penelope Cruz fantasy I had in my head, but I can see it happening.
Anyway, Gawker has the story covered, so go there.
I want to elaborate a little more on what I was saying last night about Buckminster Fuller. He had a formula for calculating the world’s wealth. It went something like W=R x E x T. The W stands for wealth, of course, that’s what we’re trying to calculate, because once we know how much of that there is in the world, we know how much everybody should get and just how bad the rich people are ripping us off.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not entirely anti-capitalist, or anti-competition. I am just anti-people starving to death and being homeless. But I digress.
R stands for resources, which are pretty much limited to what’s available on planet earth, at least until Richard Branson and his buddies start asteroid mining, which might not be that far off. I think (and Fuller thought, too) that the world’s resource pool could be expanded by creative recycling, but it’s still much more finite than the next two parts of the equation. E stands for energy, including manpower but everything else, too. Solar energy now, compared to solar energy a century from now, is like Galileo’s telescope compared to the Hubbell telescope. T is the one that just keeps expanding, hardly a week goes by that this “number” doesn’t get bigger, because T is the current state of technology.
How’s this for an application: We have 7 billion people on the planet, and at least a couple billion are unemployed or way underemployed. Why not put them to work building 7 billion luxury homes. This would increase the overall wealth of the world dramatically, end the problem of homelessness, free up a lot of disposable income for people to spend on other stuff, and benefit me, personally, tremendously.
Is that communism? Is that class envy? eh, whatever. It would work. We have the resources. We have the manpower. And we have the technology.
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