Hermit crabs: line up in size places, please!
Maybe you already knew all about this phenomenon, but I had no idea till I saw this the other day.
There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The New Neo
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Suppose you have a thousand crabs on a beach, each of which is slightly unhappy with its shell.
You throw a single shell onto the beach.
One crab finds this shell better, trades it for his, leaves it behind and another crab takes it, and so on until all crabs have changed their shells… you may even find that the one shell left over is the one you contributed.
And in the economic sense, each crab is richer even though collectively the whole group of crabs has nothing they didn’t start with.
It was that you provided them with a mechanism of exchange. Exchange does not itself create new stuff and yet people get richer when allowed to do it.
And this is the core of how the free market works to enrich people.
Precisely, Frederick. That’s what Biden is offering: an end to urban terrorism in exchange for his election. \sarc.\
Neo: Thanks!! Fascinating!!
F: There’s a video of Harris saying that BLM, etc., will keep it up even after Biden is elected, until the demands and goals are met. Anyway, once you’ve achieved a goal—such as the election of Biden—through fear, you know you can ramp up the fear and use it to control the same frightened people as you need to, to more “advanced” projects.
In my comment directly above, there should have been a carriage return between “. . . goals are met.” and “Anyway . . .”
The video is just Harris saying they will continue till their goals are met.
The rest is my comment about the matter. Those who think they can give up rights temporarily because they are afraid, and it will go no further, are crazy.
I’m reminded of a moment in the movie Peggy Sue Got Married . One woman, talking to another at their high school reunion, wonders how a girl is supposed to find a good husband. The other replies that it’s like houses. You want to trade up.
This is Service to Other genetics at work. Service to Self would be mosquitoes and parasites that use other organisms to birth live young.
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Frederick, that’s very neat. The initial shell is like a catalyst.
Another one of the “great for kids” Neo posts!
My girls loved it! Gobsmacked they were!
One could always call it “trickle down” economics, in that each shell “goes down” to the crab lower down. From the shell view.
From the crab view, it’s clearly “trickle up”, because each crab in line gets a bigger shell.
Human houses actually are very much like this, with those who want to “trade up” looking for the next step.
Which is why it’s actually better for society to build 1000 new “big” homes, than 1000 new small homes. If each of the 1000 new small homes is a “starter home”, that means 1000 families move from being a renter to an owner (responsible mortgage recipient and monthly payer). For most big homes, the ones buying already have a smaller/ less desirable home that they leave, for the next in line who and an even smaller home. Often 3-7 moves, (avg 5?) until the “starter” home which, even tho it’s used, not new, becomes the first owned home for former renters.
This means some 5000 families move into better houses (if avg is 5) after the 1000 houses are built. Plus usually a lot more construction profit for the builders.
Of course 1000 new $500k homes cost $500 million, while 1000 new $50k small, bad location homes only cost $50 million. It’s still almost always better for society to let the “market” work in choosing to build which homes, based on the profit. When builders make profits, they can build more.
One recommendation for housing including replacing deductibility of interest with a flat 30% tax credit on house payments up to $18k per year (30% of the $60k median wage). There are other ways to increase house construction.
Only house construction can reduce the lack of housing.
Sometimes with some old houses with holes. Humans can repair!
Profit is the economic measure of “sustainability”.
Great video. Thanks!
I always found it tortuous that humans pay to live on land, but the landlords and governments don’t pay God or whoever made the Earth realm, any rent.
So eventually, this all ends up in someone’s pockets. The ones that didn’t build anything, but are leeches like Biden.