Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Using Technology To Make The Dollar Go Further

Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer
Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I have not read up on every Bernie idea. What I have read I have come across while reading election news. Which means, I have not deeply studied a single Bernie idea. But what I have read feels doable and, quite frankly, not enough. But he does not seem to be making any attempt to connect the dots. The dots can be connected.

Hillary is being rewarded across the US South by blacks because she served four years under Barack Obama. They were for Hillary before they were for Barack Obama. Now they are back with Hillary. For people with the black experience (the patent thing) it would mean a lot to you that Hillary served under Obama. They are like, Bernie who? That is where I myself was last year.

The gender thing is, women have to be made to feel equal at the workplace. Universal pre-K, universal child care, universal public transportation. Pay equality. Paid family leave. I believe workplaces with in-built child care would outproduce workplaces without. The obvious things. If women can be made to achieve purchasing power parity, the rest flows from there. Right now they don't even have an equal seat at the table.

It's not just about taxing people more, or getting a bigger bite out of the current budget. In fact, if you take a slightly bigger bite out of the current budget, you don't need a higher tax rate. But mostly it is just about using technology to make the dollar further. As in, better execute. Do more with less. It is not lack of money. It is lack of imagination.

Hillary Clinton could not ask for anything  better than Donald Trump as Opposition Leader for eight years. And Donald Trump could not ask for anything better for himself.

Libya: Laboratory

Signs grow of new Western urgency to stop Islamic State in Libya



Libya would be a great place where to test my Law Of Political Entropy.

What to do? Beam the internet from the sky across at least 90% of the populated territory. And smuggle a few million Android phones to be given out for free. Preferably they should have solar chargers.

And that's it.

Weapons and armed groups get in the way.

Do it and watch magic happen.

Nepal: Political Laboratory

The military action was not wrong. Fascism only has a military solution. So the first step was not wrong. Just that there was no second step. The people should have the option to peacefully, democratically organize themselves. That is where connectivity helps.

The thing about the Law Of Political Entropy is you can pre-emptively "attack" any territory. You don't have to wait for a dictator to go crazy. You don't have to wait for anything. And there is not much need for military intervention. Although a threat of force and some smart, surgical acts might help speed up the process and do some alignment work.

If you think Libya is about to go to hell anyways, why not give the Law Of Political Entropy a try?

South China Sea

To date I have never attempted a study of the South China Sea issue. Soon I might attempt a study to try and make sense of what's going on. Just like Kashmir is not about land, South China Sea might not be about water. It might be an ideological tussle. It is one of the most happening parts of the world in terms of commerce. The most important goal obviously is to keep it open for global trade.