A century ago, we paid writers by the word. Guess what? They started bloating books and newspapers with filler. They got paid more to write more but they didn't say more.
There's a very old movie (70's) about a country that's having power-grid problems and is forced to limit consumption. This becomes a political problem.
So the politicians seek a fix - a trick - anything to get this issue off of the table.
They turn to a plumber, who happens to pass by the hallway, and ask him how to fix it.
He suggests they install a little dynamo inside every toilet in every house. So that when people flush they will generate power.
The politicians rush to execute and soon every home has a toilet-dynamo. Then in a grand TV live show, they ask everyone in the country to flush all at once.
Amazing! Power flows! and then dies down. So they ask the people to flush again!
A century ago, we paid writers by the word. Guess what? They started bloating books and newspapers with filler. They got paid more to write more but they didn't say more.
Time is a flat circle.
My only sadness is that you didn't offer an alternative. Which I understand, it's genuinely hard to _find_ an alternative. But I'll keep looking.
There's a very old movie (70's) about a country that's having power-grid problems and is forced to limit consumption. This becomes a political problem.
So the politicians seek a fix - a trick - anything to get this issue off of the table.
They turn to a plumber, who happens to pass by the hallway, and ask him how to fix it.
He suggests they install a little dynamo inside every toilet in every house. So that when people flush they will generate power.
The politicians rush to execute and soon every home has a toilet-dynamo. Then in a grand TV live show, they ask everyone in the country to flush all at once.
Amazing! Power flows! and then dies down. So they ask the people to flush again!
and again ... and again.
And then the country runs out of water.
It's hilarious.
Wow. Tokenmaxxing is like telling people they’ll be rewarded if they spend a lot of energy or water, regardless of it’s useful or wasteful.
Quite impressive that they’re so dissociated from the real (physical) world.