tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post5845352176994078154..comments2024-03-28T03:24:05.678-04:00Comments on NAKED KEYNESIANISM: Technological determinism and economic growthMatias Vernengohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521604894748538215noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post-5693107100518467942015-01-30T05:52:34.981-05:002015-01-30T05:52:34.981-05:00Hello again...
I very much like this theme of your...Hello again...<br />I very much like this theme of yours, that productivity is driven by demand.<br />Perhaps you will like my perspective on it:<br /><br />http://newarthurianeconomics.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-vernengo-said.html<br />The Arthurianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501331051089400601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post-17746511581816922562014-08-25T13:26:57.685-04:002014-08-25T13:26:57.685-04:00Your reply to my comment takes my breath away beca...Your reply to my comment takes my breath away because of its narrow view of what technology can do for humankind. For example, democracy and justice are delivered through systems and systems are the province of systems engineering in which field I spent thirty years providing systems for many large enterprises that provided services that were valuable to all Americans. Furthermore, the widespread problems of economic inequality and racial injustice, as well as the war on women as practiced by many in our power groups are a direct and undeniable consequence of human nature and the mismanagement of government power. The adverse effects of human nature cannot be managed through education or sermons or rants on blogs, but they can be managed through better systems. So justice is a service that can only be fairly distributed through improved systems. One only has to look at the current Supreme Court to understand how poor systems can do great harm to the people. The SCOTUS is a poorly designed system as are Congress and the Executive Branch, and we should not forget capitalism, education, political parties, religion, many business models, health insurance companies, many types of HMO, the Fed, the debt ceiling, austerity, a phony claim that we can run out of money--all of which are poorly designed systems that block the deliverance of justice to all Americans. Of course there is our Criminal Justice System, our system of laws, criminal and civil, and more. All of these are failed systems. So, as a systems engineer I know that all of these dysfunctional systems do not take into account human nature which has come to be understood more and more clearly thanks to those who toil in the gardens of science. I could go on, but I think I should return to the task I was working on when our conversation started: finishing a book that will propose sweeping changes to most of the systems I have just listed. At least I am hard at work devising ways to make life better for all. I hope that someday you will benefit from the work that I and many others are doing. If that should come to pass, I will happily say, “You’re welcome.” Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post-21443134063152171202014-08-24T09:15:26.980-04:002014-08-24T09:15:26.980-04:00This comment takes my breath away. Whatever goods...This comment takes my breath away. Whatever goods technology produces, there remain questions about who gets access to them. That's a matter of justice. And justice can't be gotten solely with the admirable tools of science, technology, and their cousins. Do you intend to say that democracy, justice, and other concepts are merely part of "ideology"? --Or did they come into being through the activities of science and technology? If you prefer the 21st century to the 12th, then probably you like having ideas like democracy and justice, or even autonomy and respect. And those ideas were crafted and nourished outside the workshops of the scientist and the engineer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post-64523848457474651382014-08-23T07:50:13.910-04:002014-08-23T07:50:13.910-04:00Great intelects and entrepeneurs need room and mea...Great intelects and entrepeneurs need room and means to grow. They don't appear out of thin air, but from a very rich ecosystem of social needs, institutions, contact with other intelects and policies. This creates the critical mass the brings new ideas and technologies to life. Take the ubiquitous example of Steve Jobs: What would have happened if he had beend adopted (he was adopted) by parents from rural United States (or a commodities driven country) and had not grown surrounded by IBM engineers, programmers and counter culture agents? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post-9445708292017053992014-08-22T11:13:31.112-04:002014-08-22T11:13:31.112-04:00Evolution by natural selection has given humankind...Evolution by natural selection has given humankind many gifts; the greatest of these is our intellects. The greatest intellectual power that we humans have is the power to make something out of nothing but an idea. Growth, or progress as I prefer to call it, is created by good ideas no matter where they may come from. Historians don't have very many good ideas, and neither do economists, politicians, businessmen, capitalists, educators and others who toil in similar ideology-based fields. But those who engage in fact-based activities: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics do have good ideas that do good things for society and thereby progress is made. So it is and so it shall always be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com