Sunday, February 12, 2006

Matian Medians are Skewed

I think the martian who coined Valentines day got it right. Think about it, for the all the Vday hopefulls out there who have someone special its a great way to spend their money (case and point someone is finally able to milk profits out of love) and for those who have no one, well there are two kinds there really; first the ones who are hypertypically single (tried and tired again but are now celebate) and the ones who have someone special in mind and has mustered up enough courage to finally ask that special someone out its still a fruitful way of spending their money. The beauty of Valentines day is that fact that now you are able to profit from people who are in any of the three positions. Look at Mars go redder than usual this week, people buying gifts and people planning how to spend the specified night of loneliness (not so obvious to them is that fact that all nights termed or not are equally lonely) and then there are the few who buy gifts in order to prospect what the future holds for them. Being an economist myself (i like to call myself that) its a great way for the economy to fruit from something as over played and often over stated as love.
An analogy to valentines day is the basic concept of social giving. Altruism they call it these days cause its allways more legitimate if it has a fancy multi-syllable taxonomy under its belt. Social giving is the best way for somebody who has not much to make much from someone who has much. I dont mean to sound crude or cynical or even unsympathetic, but you have to wonder if social giving is really giving. If you have made soo much that you can afford to give, does it not make sense then to stop what you are doing. What this would do is give someone else a chance to make the sooo much more than you are making. I know it sounds radical but think about it, voulantary retirement for anyone who has enough to give. A bit socialist in outlook i would say, but it does make logical sense. Utilitarianism has never failed and to prove this point lets study another scenario. Imagine a single mens loo in a heavily crowded shopping mall. The mall has no way of building another mens loo so as to solve the congestion problem in the current loo. The answer to this solution really lies in utilitarianism. You really need to get more people into the loo at a given time and then get them out as soon as possible so that the next batch can really empty their lead. A capitalist would say .. "Charge the people to use the loo for a specified amount of time, this way you could regulate time taken as well as generate a revenue so as to build a new loo in the future." Heres a unique solution to the problem, and the solution really lies deep rooted in the male psychi. All the mall needs to do is install more urinals in the loo closer together. This is far cheaper than building a new loo. The closer the urinals are to each other (with enough space for decency/ anti spillage installations), the lesser time each man would take in his quest to dry his oasis. This is because a) its really weird to be too long in a place where another man can see your family jewels, especially when you are amidst hostile ejection procedures b)The closer the loos are together, the less space you have to own the pee, with less hand stretches and lesser prolongated sighs you leave the place of business behind you as soon as possible and venture out into what you really set out to do in the first place.
This is enspired purely from the ideas of utilitarianism and to the extent socialism and it seems to work. Take this case as a analogy to any situation it seems to work. What works best for Valentines day is if you had more of them in greater frequency (with obvious space between to fully let the experience of one die out into absolution). That way we could make more money and Mars would prosper. Why start a week before valentines day when you can start a year in advance.

Kafkka on his analysis of Marxist love

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