Transfer Pricing the Future Away

December 4, 2020

More shovelware interrupted. Hell, maybe I’ll finish it, if I remember where I was going…

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Geodesic Culture

Robert Hettinga

Transfer Pricing the Future Away

December 4, 2020

Anguilla, British West Indies

A while ago, Douglas Murray twitter-linked to what he thought was a more or less acceptable five-factor personality test, and, being a natural-born narcissist like many of my generation, and time being the principal commodity of the retired, I was on it like white on rice. Yes, I used duck on a junebug a couple rants back, and, no, don’t worry, there aren’t many more where that came from...

So, many hours later, after taking the expanded version of the test, including the serviceable but unfinished intelligence battery (not quite a standard deviation above the mean, and I lied on the math part, calculators being ubiquitous, so, yeah, normal...) and proposed career choices (movie producer. no. really. read a textbook, and, holy shit, yeah, but you know, retired, so far, but ya never know), I came to the oracular revelation, like Socrates, (see? narcissist), that, holy fuck, I’m not nearly as exceptional as I was brought up to believe, though I don’t seem to be as pugilistic, much less pug faced, about trying to prove the datum wrong. And, yes, I’m a little old to be so entitled, but, hey, my parents, see narcissist, above, were ahead of their times. Boring story -- yea, stories -- for another day.

In hindsight, this explains a lot about the way I write, like Rush Limbaugh, again, narcissism, mine, not his, which is just an act, I’m just a normal guy with a little talent on loan from god. Based on my only real on-the-job training, I have an average clerk’s-and-bartender’s-eye view of the universe. Being raised by smart people, and being the sibling of at least a couple of a the same, I may have gotten the wrong idea about myself, but at least I know how to fake it ‘til I make it. Turing, more narcissism, okay, I'll stop now, would be proud. Being completely, unironically un-self-aware helps somewhat. A boss at one of my clerk's jobs at University of Chicago (fake it 'til you make it) was exactly right when she said that I really thought I was smarter than she was.

Right. Which brings us to transfer pricing.

One of my fundamental, and overdetermined, axioms of the universe of the universe, the point of the title of this series, oddly enough, is that hierarchy, as in human switched dominance hierarcy, creates price calculation, and geodesy, as in geodesic network, and maybe geodesic culture, creates price discovery.

monopoly/oligopoly/monopolistic competition/perfect competition. everybody’s a star in their own movie, we’re all experts in something, and we’re all gonna be experts someday, which means auctions, which means commodities, whitness the vast amount of text now being produced, cough,

<<Postus interruptus, probably a neglected honey-do item...>>