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"urban survivors" ...
And in that context I'm sure they weren't worried in the least with running afoul of any federal, state, or local permit authorities. (Just the odd marauding violent competitors, who also weren't worried about running afoul of the federal state or local police...) In that imagined context of complete anarchy, the easiest path to obtaining fuel might well be wait for some fools to actually produce it and then take it from them by force.
Sound familiar at all? Because in modern civil society, part of the function of the federal, state and local police is to oversee the somewhat modulated taking by force from those that can. In modern civil society, 'crime' is partially defined as resisting the demands of others to take from those who can.
But in terms of actually producing fuel, otherwise, those 'urban survivors' were free to just have at it and produce fuel any way they could imagine.
I sort of remember the concept for that show, but how did they explain that in that urban setting there were so few competing 'urban survivors?'
For 99% of us, what goes on in a refinery might as well be magic. That is the extent to which value-for-value based economies have succeeded in giving all of us the freedom to offer value in any manner we choose. And the human nature result is, mostly resentment and loathing for the far less than 1% who build refineries, to the extent that the 99% are angry when the price of gasoline suddenly starts to approach the cost of bottled water and we freshly have to begin to start to consider how we use it. We were all raised during a time when gasoline was so cheap that we barely had to consider its price, our 'win-win' was so great.
It is that same calculus for nearly everything of value in our value-for-value 'consumer is King' economies, with a roaming 1%, and the reaction by the great middle core of pandered to 'king consumers' is largely resentment and bafflement and anger at a world that provides for them with barely any effort at all on their part. And yet, it is not enough, as 'king consumer', to be carried. 'King consumer' hears political pandering stories about how much of 'the pie' they are personally getting in their receiving end of supply and demand, of create/produce and consume, of running uphill and running downhill. Not satisfied with the size of the 'win' in our side of the 'win-win' value-for-value transactions, we are freshly interested in the size of the 'win' in our exchange partners ledgers. That we 'win' in our single transaction is not enough, if the cumulative impact of the millions of wins in our suppliers ledgers is far greater.
That we win -- by having a single simple job to go to as a result of the efforts of those producing the supply side to feed millions of serve-demand transactions -- is not enough, if those at the core of this effort are living too well.
Politicians -- power grubbers in the middle of all this, know one thing, and that is, how to count heads, and the painless path to power in an unfettered democracy is always to pander to the roaming 99%.
The inevitable tribal result is what we see. And, those that can, adjust accordingly, to the latest tribal grab for never enough more.
regards,
Fred
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