New Cities/New Soviets

May 05, 2005

technology

tha cart is going gangbusters

thanks in large part to a nifty new
steam table designed by
yours truly.

there has been a quantum leap
in the amount of food I can serve
during the night,
the wait-time is down,
and revenues are up up up.

for the first time, the
cart is feeling like a serious business --
amateur hour is ova.

In fact, this first leap
is already demanding another...


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ain't it grand?

take a hypothesis -- there is
more demand out there,
if only I could serve people
faster and keep the
length of the line down.

think on it and think some more.

an idea -- not even a particularly
novel one -- of using steam to keep
the food hot (but not dry it out or
burn it)


make a design.

get a quote on fabrication (I thought
about building it myself, even took a
welding class -- but in the end a pro
could do it in 1/10th of the time
for 5/4ths the price -- a no brainer)


and suddenly the entire project is remade!

(and with it, my life)

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once you have experienced this, how
could you ever be derisive about

"a marxist obsession with technical innovation"

or whatever other horsefeathers
anarcho doubters will try to feed you?


technical innovation is a wonderful metaphor
for the massive windfall
that can be acheived by re-organization!


no marxist will argue that
technical innovation alone
will solve social problems -- it is idiocy to claim
this is the case...


at the same time -- if you
have such disregard for the value
of human time that you would abandon
technical progress...

you clearly ain't been through
a change like I have!

Posted by Sam at May 5, 2005 06:17 PM

yes innovation without exploitation

Posted by: meat me at May 6, 2005 02:58 PM

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