Scaling Up

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Capitalism again. Firstly I better say that I would of course like to see a ‘scaling up’ of any vaccine for this Coronavirus. Scaled up for the whole world.

You often hear it on ‘Dragon’s Den’ or ‘The Apprentice’-‘But can it be scaled up?’ Or ‘I have contacts that can scale this up’. I remember once one of the ‘Dragons’ getting 50% of someone’s company with the promise of being able to ‘scale it up’. This is the problem with our modern day Capitalism. What we need to is SCALE THINGS DOWN. Or keep things to scale. Keep things in balance.

To make my point again I have a very apt example. I was watching ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay’ the debt recovery programme. They turned up at his house in the morning-rather comical his efforts to hide but they got in in the end (though he still desperately held out for a while). Asked what the problem was? Globes. A new globe digitised or something. It looked good. I might have bought one. It was his own idea.

Anyway, he had sunk everything into this and initially it had taken off. He was advised to ‘scale it up’. Then there was some problem…can’t remember but the orders dried up. Now he was on the verge of losing his house..Then he showed the ‘enforcers’ the cellar, the bedrooms, the garage and there they all were globes globes globes.

See that is the problem. The impulse or the encouragement (so hard to define properly) from a Capitalistic mindset to produce as much as possible, to ‘cash in’. This is my opportunity for Global domination (in globes). I have got to take my chance, I have got to risk it. I have produce globes for the whole Globe.

That is the modern mindset encouraged by Capitalism.

Now if we lived in a calmer more normal world he could have produced these globes and offered them to friends and family and if they were popular maybe sell them out of a shop in the locality. That would be normal, that would have given him ease of mind.
The image of Charlie Chaplin comes to mind -bouncing the globe from off his fingertips.

Nominated by Miles Plastic

34 thoughts on “Scaling Up”

  1. In the example above I don’t think scale up was an issue it’s more to do with marketing, either he didn’t do his marketing very well or just assumed that his product would sell, he took a chance and it didn’t work.

    I agree that as a society we make and consume a vast array of useless shite, from time to time I buy stuff that isn’t essential but it’s my choice, mass production makes things affordable.
    A good example is ‘white’ goods, a washing machine for less than £200 is very affordable for virtually everyone (bongo lands exception).

    • I think Mr Plastic was referring to the balls out or bust mentality rather than the division of labour and economies of scale. But what’s the point? The last time I looked a UK patent is around 40K and a worldwide one many times that, thank Dog the Chinese are sticklers for the rule of law. Further down the food chain, if your idea is any good, you will get fucked. See you in court where my corporations legal team will calculate how to ruin you on a time/cost benefit basis. You could box clever like Dyson but that is not what is going to happen. The most unhappy people I have ever come across are the pure inventors, think Frank Whittle, Trevor Baylis et al. Some escape happy Tommy Flowers, Bill Tutte come to mind but they didn’t really do anything of note anyway. Relax, have a beer and maybe riddle me this, how can there be capitalism if the cost of capital is negative?

      • “..how can there be capitalism if the cost of capital is negative?”

        Aliens.

  2. I’ve got a plastic toy monkey from Chy-na.
    It takes 6 batteries to make it work and all it does is make a high pitched scream and has light up eyes brighter than the sun.
    Had it years.

      • Unlike the Japanese toys I used to pull apart as a child, which were held together by folded over metal tabs, Chinese plastic stuff uses tiny nuts & bolts and other metal components (or small loudspeakers like 1″ with miniature amps and associated LED’s) that are difficult to obtain. By all means oven the plastic but those metal components are pure gold. Almost always cheaper to buy a Chinese toy and take it apart than to source the internals from a national component supplier (where I have an account) especially the tiny nuts and bolts. Available in stainless, plated or non-ferrous. Value. And the speakers from toys that talk to you: they have built-in amps and sound samples which can be hacked, allegedly. I’ve never tried this myself, you understand.

  3. Just because the bloke is a stupid cunt I’m not sure it follows that capitalism is at fault.

    I’m trying to think of an amusing counter but instead I’ll say how much I hate Lily FUCKING Allen and all labour party members.

    And Sandi Toksvig.

    • Try taking a look at the PolStrat (Political Strategy) movement on Bitchute. It really is a fascinating concept. A currency based on demand and backed by trust rather than debt, which we have now…

  6. I was feeling quite bright when I started on your post but now I feel like I’m shagged out after a long squawk.

  7. Miles, where do I buy these globes everyone is going crazy for?
    I’ll buy as many as you can supply!
    I can make a small profit by a 20% mark up, with the option to ship them abroad.
    This time next year we’ll be globe barons!!
    £££)££☺

  9. My old boss used to talk about scaleable and repeatable….even processes.
    “Is it scaleable Daz?” he would ask…”The fuck you on about?…….I’m leaving” I would reply.
    Why would anyone want a globe anyway…we are fucking stood on one. CUNT!

    • He quit in the end himself and went to work for P&O Cruises as a Magician on a cruise ship with the same act but a different audience every two weeks. The Captain’s parrot is sat watching him for about a month and then starts spoiling the show. “Flowers under the table!…All cards Ace of Spades!….Different Hat!” basically a cunt of a bird!

      Anyway, the furious magician endures this parrot spoiling his act for 8 weeks until the ship hits a reef and sinks. The magician finds himself floating on a piece of wreckage with guess who? The parrot!….The hatred is palpable and the two just sat and stared at each other for 2 days. Eventually the Parrot says “OK, I give up, what did you do with the ship?” ……………………Coat?

  10. Where I work(ed) before this happened we were heading for a crash due to our marketing and sales dept, we are under resourced at the best of times with limited availability on services due to lack of decent management so they went into “Up sell” mode to increase “sales and turnover”.
    Marketing blitzed the public with offers and prices that were under cutting our agreed account customers terms, (that pissed them off and they fucked off) our new “Market” had very little understanding of the products offered, normally fucking them up and returning broken goods demanding refunds.
    So we were doing more work for less money with a rapidly declining client base and dwindling resources, very successful up sell (up scale) that was.
    I do wonder when the redundancy letter will pop through the letter box, I certainly know who I would have got rid of.

  11. Interesting one this. The dragons always seek to scale up for the simple reason that this increases profit. And that is what they are all about. Anything which doesn’t scale up is – to them – a hobby business which they won’t touch. They will also take production to the far east where labour is cheaper and they enjoy economies of scale.

    However, there has to be demand for a product and one wonders how the globe man thought he was ever going to sell masses of them. I felt sorry for him because the baliff rang him up pretending to be a customer and that’s how they traced him. The can’t pay mob will do anything to get their money often coercing the debtors into borrowing money from friends or relatives. They don’t care that they might well be putting another poor sod into debt. What they do may be necessary but they are bullies and the dark side of capitalism.

    • ‘i felt sorry for him because the baliff rang him up pretending to be a customer and that’s how they traced him’

      That’s right. You saw it? Was it McCracken….the charge against him is he does seem to enjoy his work a bit too much.

  12. I saw you the other night Miles, at that fancy dress party dressed as a globe.
    You appeared to be in a world of your own.

  14. I wish I could scale up my middle finger and use it to bludgeon corporate cocksuckers I dislike.

    Richard Branson would be first. I’d swipe him out the air next time he gets in his balloon, and fling him into orbit.

  15. Shit as it may seem, the alternatives are far worse. We’ve all had a little taste of passed for normal in soviet Russia, long queues to get into shops that are empty of bare essentials. Fuck that.

    • It’s not a choice between laissez faire out of control capitalism and state controlled communism.

  16. The problem with capitalism is the out of control birthrate in shithole countries, making it look ‘unfair’ that there’s a lot of people on the planet who can’t ‘afford’ stuff.

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