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Retired Boomer, Electrical Engineering dropout. Fixed computers for IBM anyway.
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Economics hobbyist specializing in Depreciation due to Planned Obsolescence. 11/16/24 day 0
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Who needs Data?

Economists have been ignoring what consumers lose on the depreciation of Automobiles and other Durable Consumer Goods for decades.

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umbrarchist.bsky.social Umbrarchist @umbrarchist.bsky.social · 13m
How about everybody understanding 700 year old double entry accounting and being able to do it with their pocket supercomputers.

When do economists suggest that? Accounting could have been mandatory since 1950.

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There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂 😆 😂 And I practice! 🤣
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
How about everybody understanding 700 year old double entry accounting and being able to do it with their pocket supercomputers.

When do economists suggest that? Accounting could have been mandatory since 1950.

chevan.info/depreciation...
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂 😆 😂 And I practice! 🤣
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
How about everybody understanding 700 year old double entry accounting and being able to do it with their pocket supercomputers.

When do economists suggest that? Accounting could have been mandatory since 1950. What is the annual depreciation of automobiles?

chevan.info/depreciation...
How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy Pockets - Chevan Nanayakkara
This essay reveals how accounting rules systematically block wealth-building for middle-class families while concentrating profits in wealthy pockets. When businesses depreciate equipment, they get ta...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
How many Automobiles have been manufactured and trashed since WWII?

What have economists said about the depreciation of all of those machines?

Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. No cars back then!

Could Planned Obsolescence be high-tech wage slavery?
What is NET DP?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😂
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Have you noticed that "Experts" in skyscrapers have never discussed the distribution of steel down the Twin Towers?

Do you think level 105 contained the same amount of steel as level 5 which had to support the weight of 21 times as many stories?

Look at the Eiffel🗼Tower which had little concrete.
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Are the economies so interdependent because your cultural training has pushed it that way?

Why hasn't that 700 yr old Dbl-Entry Accounting invented in Italy been mandatory in high schools since Sputnik? #econsky
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umbrarchist.bsky.social Umbrarchist @umbrarchist.bsky.social · Jun 23
What do economists tell politicians about the NDP?

Have economists lost the NDP in the Cash Flow? #EconSky

Why no mandatory accounting in schools since Sputnik?

Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times in Wealth of Nations. He used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times.

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There is a Gross and there is a Net! Surprise, surprise! However something has been missing the Net for decades, which is the point of this discussion. Long ago Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. However he and everyone else spent their lives without automobiles to depreciate. So Marx was writing about the depreciation of Capital Goods. He mentioned "Rolling Stock" a number of times, that is Trains. Locomotives and rail cars wore out and had to be repaired and replaced and this was all part of the cost of doing business. The First Automobile turned up in Germany two years after Marx died. It was nothing but a rich man's toy but it was the shape of things to come. The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 came and went for large cities without ceasing to be a Crisis. Horses produce 25 pounds of manure per day and having 100,000 of them in a Great City like New York or London tended to make them not so great. Henry Ford finally presented the solution in 1908 with his Model-T. In 1912 the number of cars in NY City passed the number of horses. History proceeded without Marx to The Great War that would eventually be demoted to World War I, the Roaring Twenties to be stifled by the Great Depression with lots of hoopla about Economics. Thus enters John Maynard Keynes and the Gross National Product. It was Domesticated in the 90s becoming GDP instead of GNP. The difference does not matter to this discussion. The Deficit Spending used to fight WWII thereby lifting the US economy from the pits was taken as proof that Keynes was not talking trash. So GDP ruled everyone's thinking. Consumerism exploded with television in the 50s along with the depreciation that everyone ignored. The Great Acceleration has become the Great Depreciation and experts are still trying to ignore it. I think it is becoming more difficult. Economists do not say much about Demand Side Depreciation. I have never seen NDP expressed graphically in an Economics textbook.
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Is depreciation a Law of Economics resulting from the Laws of Physics?

What have economists been saying about the annual depreciation of automobiles since whenever they figured out Planned Obsolescence?

Have Economists figured out Planned Obsolescence since 1980?

What is the NET Domestic Product?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Lenin died in 1924.

The Phoebus Cartel began the planned obsolescence of light bulbs in '25.

Marx used the word 'depreciation' 126 times in Das Kapital.

The Planned Depreciation of technology has changed our economic problems since 1950.

Now economists cannot tell us the Annual Car Depreciation.
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
What? You don't believe what he tells you?

You will have to be deported! 😆
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Political-Economic Power Games
So why no mandatory accounting in high schools?
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What do economists say about Planned Obsolescence & Depreciation?
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Do Economists actually comprehend the system?
Are they helping to keep the Peons broke?
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November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
So when/where have politicians and economists been advocating mandatory accounting in the schools and talking about the depreciation of automobiles due to Planned Obsolescence?

What is a Bathtub Curve anyway?

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The BathTub Curve
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November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Tell the Air Force!
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Economics makes more sense if you think of it as a Power Game!

Accounting could have been mandatory in high schools since 1950. The traditional social structure has decided that most people are supposed to be losers who do not know the script.

Screw the peons! 🤑

chevan.info/depreciation...
How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy Pockets - Chevan Nanayakkara
This essay reveals how accounting rules systematically block wealth-building for middle-class families while concentrating profits in wealthy pockets. When businesses depreciate equipment, they get ta...
chevan.info
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Economics makes more sense if you think of it as a Power Game!

Accounting could have been mandatory in high schools since 1950. The traditional social structure has decided that most people are supposed to be losers who do not know the script.

Screw the peons! 🤑

chevan.info/depreciation...
How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy Pockets - Chevan Nanayakkara
This essay reveals how accounting rules systematically block wealth-building for middle-class families while concentrating profits in wealthy pockets. When businesses depreciate equipment, they get ta...
chevan.info
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Does anyone really believe that Trump can figure out the consequences of his actions when other people may change their behavior as a result?

Can Trump play chess worth a damn?

He is just an egomaniac with delusions of grandeur who cannot accept that other players are smarter.

He is wrecking usA!
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Trumpression!

One obvious difference about the Great Depression from now is that it was not preceded by 70 yrs of planned obsolescence in automobiles.

That would have been the American Civil War.

No Cars! 🚔 😆

The NET Domestic Product has slipped the minds of the entire Economics Profession! 🤑
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Economics makes more sense if you think of it as a Power Game!

Accounting could have been mandatory in high schools since 1950. The traditional social structure has decided that most people are supposed to be losers who do not know the script.

Screw the peons! 🤑

chevan.info/depreciation...
How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy Pockets - Chevan Nanayakkara
This essay reveals how accounting rules systematically block wealth-building for middle-class families while concentrating profits in wealthy pockets. When businesses depreciate equipment, they get ta...
chevan.info
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Notice that Economists with PhDs cannot tell the American people what they lose on the depreciation of automobiles every year.

What is Planned Obsolescence?

What is the NET Domestic Product?

Can Economists do algebra?
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995 and about 80% of them were owned by consumers. ChatGPT says 650+ million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. What have economists been saying about the Depreciation of various technologies for the last 30 years? Thomas Sowell did not even use the word 'depreciation' in his book, Basic Economics. Depreciation must have been part of economics before the invention of money. Hand axes used by "cave men" required finding the proper rocks and applying labor to chip a sharp edge. That edge would then gradually break off with use. Maybe it could be resharpened but eventually another rock would have to be found and a replacement made. Stone Age Depreciation! So why has there been no reportage of the amount of Financial Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods since World War Two when P-51s and P-38s roamed the skies. We have come a long way Caveman! What is Net Domestic Product? NDP = GDP - Depreciation But that Depreciation is Dcap, Capital Goods only. Have Economists noticed? Maybe it should be: NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) Dcon is Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods It is just a simple Algebra problem. I am being blocked by lots of people with degrees in economics on BlueSky. Or at least claim to have degrees. Those that I can verify, one from Harvard, two PhDs not from Harvard, one banker and miscellaneous others. No one has disputed planned obsolescence. Most never even communicated. Maybe I AM a really horrible person. 😆
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Does anyone really believe that Trump can figure out the consequences of his actions when other people may change their behavior as a result?

Can Trump play chess worth a damn?

He is just an egomaniac with delusions of grandeur who cannot accept that other players are smarter.

He is wrecking usA!
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
Economics makes more sense if you think of it as a Power Game!

Accounting could have been mandatory in high schools since 1950. The traditional social structure has decided that most people are supposed to be losers who do not know the script.

Screw the peons! 🤑

chevan.info/depreciation...
How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy Pockets - Chevan Nanayakkara
This essay reveals how accounting rules systematically block wealth-building for middle-class families while concentrating profits in wealthy pockets. When businesses depreciate equipment, they get ta...
chevan.info
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
But is the problem that this society tells us to get our ego wrapped up in a "career"?

I worked for IBM. I was interested in technology not The Company.

"Drop the Cash and I fix your Trash!" 🤣

It is absurd that this society cannot even create a K-12 National Recommended Reading List.
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
umbrarchist.bsky.social
You keep giving me likes but you don't say anything.
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM