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



