tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post2548545342219816614..comments2023-10-16T11:28:03.544+00:00Comments on Anomaly UK: The EndAnomaly UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780148789321563441noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-85831761718539275962009-10-04T15:48:02.847+00:002009-10-04T15:48:02.847+00:00Ho hum.
If I had to update 1984 to a modern conte...Ho hum.<br /><br />If I had to update 1984 to a modern context, I'd suggest that we are run by a philosophy called "Home-owner-ism", which, like in 1984, restricts the economy to well below its optimum, whereby wealth would be redistributed according to effort/ability. <br /><br />The aim of this is to preserve a heirarchical society, so that the 'insiders' (Inner Party members, aka landowners) have a huge advantage against 'acolytes (Outer Party members aka home-owners in a 3-bed house), who in turn have a modest advantage compared to 'outsiders' (proles, aka tenants).<br /><br />The fact that we could easily all afford to live in 4-bed houses (assuming we wanted to) is irrelevant, because that way Outer Party members would not be at a visible material advantage compared to outsiders.<br /><br />Thus the outsiders commit half their life time earnings to becoming home-owners, who wage an eternal battle against a wider spread of home-ownership (aka NIMBYism).<br /><br />Instead of excess production capacity being diverted into permanent warfare (like in 1984), the fruits of excess capacity and economic progress are constantly swallowed up by the land market.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.com