Night skyline landscape of Tokyo, Japan. Tōkyō, Nihon. 東京, 日本
Wouldn’t it be cool if unwanted Apple and MS machines figured out how to make their own distributed AI, and then outcompete their parent companies?
Artificial Scarcity Gone Wrong
Tag / Japan
Levity Bread and Food for Thought
Coffee and tea. Street beverage vending machine. Morioka, Iwate, Japan. Shot with Nikon FE2 and Silberra Ortho 50 film.
Demand-pull or supply-push? Armchair economists want to know, because even they work at home now.
Cooperation
Johnny’s Jazz Cafe. Morioka, Iwate, Japan. ジャズカフェ, 盛岡市, 日本.
Hoard jazz records.
Because cooperation and improvisation is a good evolved skill to have, and then make available to others. That’s if we’re applying intelligent Darwinism, within its proper sphere.
Once this storm passes, and it will, survivors – odds are you will be one of them – may see exclusion based on lifestyle, area code, or politics as an absurd anarchronism. Instead, it may simply base on who is cooperative or not? Reputation will matter, again.
By the way, these records will have more value than TP before long, which can be subbed with a bidet, anyway (or a shower). For paper towells the smart money substitutes with Sham Wow’s, which are reusable.
Get bent, savage imbeciles.
Patience
Coffee vendor waits for customers. Morioka-shi, Iwate, Japan. Nikon FE2 and Silberra 50 Orta black and white film. November 2019.
Devotion to craft and service. Making a lot out of small spaces. Do one or a few simple things right. There is much to learn from how small business makes its way in Japan.
Nonplussed
500 No kogane no zō. 500の黄金の像. 仏の弟子. 盛岡岩手. One of the 500 Golden Statues of Buddha’s Disciples at Hoonji Temple. Morioka, Iwate, Japan.
Little Kick 