Your contribution to an Atlantis society
Earlier this AM, I made a couple of comments.
1) For 1%er's like us, our portion of America's
debt is likely to be about $6 million based on
future government obligations and the fact that
the top 1% pay 40% of the taxes. A top 10%er's
portion of the debt is somewhere between
0.5 and 1 million dollars. Time to shrug.
2) Obama made the point several years ago that
America is not exceptional. He has succeeded
in fulfilling his own words. America could be
exceptional again, but Zenphamy and I agreed that
would be unlikely without a civil war. We agreed
regrettably that it was time to start planning
for our summer and winter sites for Atlantis.
Before any of us actually goes to a physical
Atlantis, there are obviously several logistics
that would be need to be worked out. A couple of
people and I said that without chocolate,
Atlantis wouldn't be that great a place. Hence,
we need a chocolatier, and actually got someone
to agree to such a position.
I would like to be the person who invents
biomedical devices that a Dr. Hendricks would
implant to improve our lives in our old age.
However, as someone who also has experience in
energy, chemical, and materials engineering, I
realize that may be a longer term goal.
Setting up a provisional trash-to-energy and
chemicals plant would be my first task in Atlantis.
I am sure that I would use some of my 3D printing
background to make rapid prototypes for our mechanical
engineers as well.
What I would like to see from this post is a list
of what you would like to do in a Galt's Gulch
society, along with a backup plan or two. As in
Atlas Shrugged, several Gulch citizens had plans
to put others out of business, so we would have
to be a little flexible :)
1) For 1%er's like us, our portion of America's
debt is likely to be about $6 million based on
future government obligations and the fact that
the top 1% pay 40% of the taxes. A top 10%er's
portion of the debt is somewhere between
0.5 and 1 million dollars. Time to shrug.
2) Obama made the point several years ago that
America is not exceptional. He has succeeded
in fulfilling his own words. America could be
exceptional again, but Zenphamy and I agreed that
would be unlikely without a civil war. We agreed
regrettably that it was time to start planning
for our summer and winter sites for Atlantis.
Before any of us actually goes to a physical
Atlantis, there are obviously several logistics
that would be need to be worked out. A couple of
people and I said that without chocolate,
Atlantis wouldn't be that great a place. Hence,
we need a chocolatier, and actually got someone
to agree to such a position.
I would like to be the person who invents
biomedical devices that a Dr. Hendricks would
implant to improve our lives in our old age.
However, as someone who also has experience in
energy, chemical, and materials engineering, I
realize that may be a longer term goal.
Setting up a provisional trash-to-energy and
chemicals plant would be my first task in Atlantis.
I am sure that I would use some of my 3D printing
background to make rapid prototypes for our mechanical
engineers as well.
What I would like to see from this post is a list
of what you would like to do in a Galt's Gulch
society, along with a backup plan or two. As in
Atlas Shrugged, several Gulch citizens had plans
to put others out of business, so we would have
to be a little flexible :)
Robert Heinlein
1. Medical (doctoring and nursing).
2. Supply Chain and Transportation (materials, sustenance, perishables).
3. Defense (intelligence and physical)
4. Funding/Treasury
5. Engineering/Engineers ( will need several disciplines ).
6. Administrative/Educational
7. Communications/Telecommunications
I'm an adjunct business professor who dropped out of traditional academia to teach at a private college where I can teach students how to use reason to apply business principles. In the gulch I would wait tables to become a student of philosophy under Professor Danneskjold. Or his likely proxy.