co-guested : capitalism and socialism

One resolution for the capitalist-socialist dilemma is a formalised caste system. Individuals or corporate entities may access different insurances and opportunities, based on formal registration by caste.

Capitalists may argue that making it opt-in is basically a free market system. But what I am proposing is essentially larger government infrastructure platform, which hosts both people who :

• 1. want to be boring for life, with limited downside 
• 2. people who are willing to risk everything

anthropology from 2005 to 2023

I devoted ten to twenty years to studying the lives of poor, and middleclass, non-Muslim Malaysians, but I did not find them less stupid across time. I examined their loves of family, friendship, and food, and their begrudging pursuit of occupations, hobbies, holiness, sophistication, and other social contexts. And while I understood much of what I observed, I did not find them to be more interesting, over time.

There is an overarching concept, in anthropology and philanthropy, that if you spend more time to understand the culture of a stupid person, you can come to an appreciation of them which is more enriching to yourself. I am not sure that I have been successful here. 

Dusk light mechanics are helping serotonin a lot, today. I reflect upon my studies.

oil metrics

Oil metrics. Tankers run 80k to 3m barrels. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 1.57 t barrels. Global daily consumption is on the order of 100m +/-5% barrels.

1m barrels ~= 159 cubic decametres ~= 0.3 hectometer diameter spheres

1b barrels ~= 159 cubic hectometres ~= 0.3 kilometer diameter spheres

1t barrels ~= 159 cubic kilometres ~= 0.3 x 10km diameter spheres

So tankers run 13 cubic dm to 0.5 cubic hm. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 238 cubic km.

So tankers run 24 dm-diameter spheres to 0.9 hm-diameter spheres. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 0.5 10km-diameter spheres.