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REDUNDANCY

What we call “one is none” is not too much more than just the practice of redundancy.  The problem with redundancy of course is that it is inefficient.  And inefficiency is what our circus handlers ( we are the beasts or the freaks, and they own the tent ) call less profit.  Redundancy is slack in the system, an extra resource for emergencies.  But extra resources of course are unprofitable.  They are inefficient.  Like when the highways were first built, under the pretext of national security ( a decentralized transportation system.  Millions of miles of road verses the thousands of railroad track ).

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It was inefficient to have that much road for ease of troop movement.  Even when the public used it, at least at first, it was a whole lot of road for not that many cars.  Of course, we all know that the roads will built with public funds for Detroit’s profits ( and then they turned around and got bail-out money on top of that ), but we speak of the rationale.  Then, after the feds bribed the Blacks to stop burning everything, the Whites used the infrastructure to move away from the cities.

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( Yes, I’m aware the Levitown suburbs and the urban riots were decades apart.  I’m mostly speaking of the sprawl far away from the employment centers that began with the White Flight ).  And the auto’s were subsidized to replace trains.  Cars are the best example of public transportation redundancy, hundreds of millions of units replacing tens of thousands ( at most ).  But the roads haven’t kept up.  Partly due to the need to join together a lengthy continent and partly because subsidized fuel encourages overuse.  Lack of any planning doesn’t help, but the whole mess assures severe lack of supply.

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The roads are completely efficient, as none go unused by the maximum number of vehicles.  And as a result of zero redundancy in the system, every added car from any already large number just results in more “efficiency”.  From the money man’s perspective, obviously.  Not from the users.  The cities maximize gasoline taxes and employment and the corporations get cheaper rent at no cost ( the users of course pay for that indirectly through fuel and depreciation, while the corporations AND government add profit.  Why build more roads when you can waste all that fuel, which is taxed, idling in traffic? )

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And overpaying the government workers to build the roads ensures far less get built.  Which increases road “efficiency” ( maximum use ).  Public transportation is so terrible not because Detroit tore up the rail eighty years ago, but because today autos and their roads are a cash cow for corporations and governments.  If you double the users on a road, you get double the tax revenue for the same construction price.  The government has the employee Unions giving them kickbacks for higher wages and the corporations kickback a portion of that cheaper rent.  They win, you lose.

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Corporations are of course the masters of reducing inefficiencies.  Every time one company buys another, getting a cheap loan because the banker wants some of that retail profit, you have reduced redundancy.  Rather than two companies offering the same product, at profit killing competition, now just one has streamlined production and sales.  There are now only half the units on shelves, insofar as suppliers go.  And all those extra employees?  Redundant.  Very inefficient to have all those Deplorables demanding a paycheck.  But who needs all that redundancy, anyway?  Why three fire extinguishers?  One will do if “efficiently planned”.

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Why have high real estate cost by building in a city next to where all the employees live?  Let all the employees come to you from far distances so that your costs are lower.  By ignoring emergency planning, this is far more efficient for the company.  If the roads become too crowded, or the gasoline supply is disrupted, employees can’t make it to work.  But you can’t stockpile parts because that isn’t efficient.  So there is no back stock if the workers can’t get over the one bridge from the suburbs to the factory, shutting down a shift.

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Redundancy built into that system would cover the unexpected.  But redundancy costs.  As a prepper, you know how dear redundancy costs.  You’ve doubled the houses, the cars, the arsenal. You’ve gone from Just In Time grocery shelves to a year’s stockpile.  You no longer use Wal-Mart for your medicine chest or wardrobe closet.  VERY inefficient.  All those unopened packs of underwear and stacks of Back To School notepads, the closet of toilet paper.  None will ever be used ( I understand they will be rotated-that doesn’t shrink inventory ).  So extrapolate that to every business and entity and you understand.

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Removing redundancy and inefficiencies was an irresistible low hanging fruit plucked long ago, from the very first murmerings of economic distress.  It has been going for so long that it seems unnatural to do things any other way.  It certainly will never change, as publicly traded corporation employees are mandated by law ( fiduciary responsibility ) to maximize profits.  Since they are untrained on how to do that under a free market ( offer superior products at better prices ), their only recourse is cooking the books by constructing Potemkin Villages.  And those villages are fireproof.

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No need for extra fire extinguishers then. That would be inefficient. So is employee satisfaction.  That crap costs money, yo!  Better to keep the immigration numbers up to increase employment competition.  Employees will too frightened to complain or quit.  The costs are shifted to the employees paying taxes in welfare to bribe the immigrants to come.  Immigration is bipartisan.  Democrats and Republicans both want corporate money for keeping corporate costs low ( low rent, low wages ). Without cheap Latino labor, Trumps hotels would be paying more in labor.  SSuuuurree that wall is going up.  Just like he is pro-gun, right?

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Can you say Bump-Stock?  It is all Kabuki Theatre.  I’ll babble on tomorrow about the costs the lack of redundancy on a more geopolitical level.

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