Better Consumer Controls for the Economy & Products

 - Jake - 03-17-2023

Sometimes the economy and the products it produces reminds me of a preschool art class mixed with an evil funhouse.

A good example of this would be consumer electronics such as smartphones.  There are tons of issues with smartphone product design which seem to me as being outright predatory, besides being downr hilarious. Smartphones can be made waterproof very easily, with a simple gasket costing very little, which could have saved alot of wasted funds…there is little doubt that a few people have died from the waste that has caused, animals from pollution notwithstanding.  Further though, all smartphones should have near-field wireless charging.  With the legal system lagging behind at the pace of a horse, keeping tabs on resources lost to competitive markets is all but lost.  With an eGov system in place, consumer controls would be much more streamlined and complementary, saving our wallets and mother nature.

How many times have you worked on your car or truck and thought, gee, I had to take apart almost the entire vehicle to get to that one little bolt which easily could have been put one centimeter THAT way, or at the hardware store and wondered why power tool companies aren’t cooperating and using a universal battery standard for power equipment?  Well, maybe not all of us, but time and again many of us have come across situations like that, where even the layperson can tell that there must be cooperation and racketeering occurring between industries—at the expense of time, and ultimately progress.  Time waits for no man and if we don't control things, we will go the way of our fuel: dinosaurdom…and never make it into space.

 
If we do make it to space though, one of the main things we will need is a compact, universal standardization of things, even stuff such as containers.  The other day I was organizing my socket set (tools) and thought of an idea.  One of the main reasons people get rid of socket sets and buy new ones is due to the accumulation of sockets that don't match the set because they are too long or too short for the case's holding spots, which makes things complicated, especially when trying to close them.  One time, I was changing tops on some jars and noticed that the sizes were the same but the threads were not.  Not only do new tools and other devices need to be made on new standards, but standards of ancillarily related dimensions related to those tools and products should be almost more focused on to begin with, which would spread throughout the markets more beneficial to the customer (and maybe a migraine doctor or two).  Things must be produced from the bottom up, be acceptably interchangeable, and also size-classed, so that the designs of similar objects meet similar parameters, which should encourage work and cargo space to be utilized more effectively...a parameter of the 14th Amendment, though but surely a requirement of space travel....a man is judged by his tools (and disorder surely comes from without, schizophrenically or otherwise, does it not?).
 
Meta-materials need to be developed to allow for completely new classes of tools, equipment, and hardware to be developed.  For instance, the wrench of the future should have the properties of adjustable wrenches now, but with the added benefits found in non-adjustable tools, such as the ability to be smaller and fit tighter, to fit in smaller crannies and for more torque (which usually go hand in hand), or the capability to be extended and very rigid...that way one wrench, or one driver can be taken along instead of 15, and that’s just in one set for standard ASE sizes, then 15 in the other for Metric, making us look more like tools…and similar situations one can only surmise should be happening across the spectrum caught between two separate standards.  We need to take a serious look at universal standardization, and I have a separate piece on that here (,,,)…if done right, an intelligent, top-down and conscientious upgrade to a more trim, fit and finer, compact and efficient universal standard could provide a major boost for us during such a time, when the economy is sure to suffer from political upheaval, in the same way that a bottle of Everclear can make an old tank of gas run, but it’s almost more important for people to grasp how standardization of extra-primary aspects of a tool are almost more important.  Such things I believe would fall more in line with consumer protection law and less under actual standardization law, keeping the two apart would help keep them from being confused and also would help to dress the consumer protection section in a better light outright, keeping it from succumbing to extraneous litigation against the Person.
 
 
Over time, small deviations from the interest of the consumer here and there can come up to choke us all at once, which could be ground back down with a more modernized eGov style democratic interface.  Things like wall power supply plugs should come with a voltage selection range and at defined power intervals (amperage), and in standard shapes with a removable cable, also more standardized.  For instance, a device rated at 12V, 2.1A could be powered by any 12V supply 2.1A or greater…if we mandated supplies to be produced in classes, that would be more beneficial to time, and the same could be said for standardizing battery voltages and amperages for power tools, along with their connections, which are being made purposely incompatible by natural competitive market forces not being propped up correctly by consumer laws.  Reinforcing all of these standardizations with other, orbiting standards such as standardized dimension classing for tools, containers and packaging would shave off that extra fat, making us look like a veritable Chuck Norris or Jenny Craig while we go to work with our new, better toys (with less of them to do the same jobs to boot).  It’s almost a blessing in disguise to be under the problems of having two accepted standards (ASE & Metric), because the recognizance of the growing need for a new super-standard able to absorb both of them exists moreso, and so the arguments and faculties for standardizing standards surrounding those actual Standards precipitate more easily from those clouds, which should be more geared under consumer protection, and less under standardization, to avoid the confusion between a standard and a Standard (standards being measured by Standards), and so should be more easily integrated under that blanket in umbrella.  More consumer protections on the back-end help to streamline manufacturing uphill upriver.  Such well-groomed policies would have very integral affects upon the ways in which we lived, worked, and played with the tools of tomorrow, which should deserve a greater respect and certainly have earned that from many a sub-contractors’ headache or two.
 
But none of that will ever happen if our government is not being conducted on modern tools in a modern fashion from the top, down and the bottom, up…which means that the Citizen and individual MUST have a modern, well-kempt and properly organized way to engage in democratic affairs, lest we encourage oppression.  Any person who would shy away from things being fair, up to speed and conducive to the average Citizen, would of course be trying to hide the fact that he or she could in some way be making another person work unfairly for the food they are eating/stealing from them, which is a basic violation of the animal and evolution, to put things bluntly.  If a person for some reason feels that they have a right to make someone work for them, there is no reason that a court could not agree with them and arrange some form of community service or restitution if they pass judgement in logic, though would have to settle the matter, or any matter for that matter in (or by) court at any rate to be considered a person to begin with.  eGovernace systems are a must-have for information to disseminate and matriculate at the pace of the rest of the economy.  For someone to want to revoke our rights to timeliness in utilizing electronics anywhere where they likely should be in our governance would be a violation of the 5th Amendment, a deprivation of time, but also of property and of liberty, in effect, due to being prevented from being free to operate in the best manner, which is oppressive and so encouraging of the same, in order to make up the devil’s difference, at the expense of time.  If we were in the 1700’s, such oppression would be akin to someone wanting to disable your ability to walk to the voting booth, or to hobble the mailman’s horse’s progress to the central counting station so that votes are not processed well, or even tamper with town halls and squares in a way to prevent people from coming together in discussion on proper policies which would benefit their communities which save time for everyone and maintain standards of progress for the youth.  Gathering together thousands of people together in person to talk about hundreds of different issues is just not logical and sane these days, from all the angles of modernity and quickening, but that is basically what our government would have us do, any claims otherwise I would argue would just be plain plausible deniability, and not real meat and potatoes.  Most people don’t even have a clue what the central web portal of their government is anyway, and do you have a govt account associated with your social security card, which looks the same way they did back in the 40’s for god’s sake (1936 to be exact)…and oh by the way, I hope you didn’t wash it!  Sheech!
 
Once people have a better way to maintain consumer protection laws, they may dictate better constraints, such as laws that could regulate when a newer product model can be introduced in order to curb unwise and unjust usages of valuable commodities and industry.  Creating new video cards every other month that barely outperform the same model made a year before is not a smart thing when the etching processes involved use precious metals and deadly chemicals which cannot be used very safely, which is especially dangerous under shaky situations caused by global issues like fraud in the Fed, often times it causes advantages to be taken of poorer economies who allow less regulation, which can devastate natural heritages like the environment, causing generational issues which far, far, far, far, far, far outweigh the benefits of roaming those extinct jungles on your computer...without you or your kids ever able to see them, much less model better graphics of them…stymied by the by...and research into better rendering engines which threaten to topple the insatiably unchecked GPU giants would have uncanny tendencies to just pack up and like move to Australia to do mundane mapping, which a company by the name of Euclideon did for no apparent reason, who's point-cloud rendering algorithms reduced computing power by 6 orders of magnitude.  It wouldn’t take a genius to see that our greed and gluttony are impeding the qualities of our finished products, so now we're seeing things which haven't been concentrated on fly out the window, much like a couch potato can't do certain dance moves without a possible fatality, or how unregulated bodybuilding can lead to steroid abuse and trash one’s body.  Which would mean that buried, backlogged technological advancements in computer programming (like Euclideon’s) that could make a graphics card from the late 90's able to run comparable graphics as the latest gfx cards of today, in-turn relieving extreme stresses on natural resources and the environment (as well as paving the way for whole new classes of compact, wearable gaming computers and ultra-realistic VR) will never come (or maybe the it was the movie industry who paid them off, who knows).  Almost all of these programmers disappear like Santa Clause.  That’s if we stay at the current rate and vector in our governmental cant.
 
If a new model of any product does not have significant enough improvements to warrant or be genuinely deserving of what goes into it, then it should not be allowed because it could be seen as a deprivation of life, based upon stresses to shared natural resources and so time in general in turn, which can and doth manifest in the psyche and soul through now known more advanced scientific phenomena such as Quantum Entanglement, as has been covered in other articles, but of which we already knew because our women are so good looking, aren't they?  I'm not saying that new models shouldn't be allowed sheerly for the sake of “new,” but that there should be a certain appreciation for the time requited by such vanities, which is the spice of life and not the main course.  Mediocre incremental advancements being allowed for new models needs to stop, because it puts a strain on research and development, development and research.  Though on the other hand, one would not want to compel automobile companies to progress too quickly by forcing them to therefore create new technologies every year, so a happy medium must be achieved, such as setting things like a new minimum vehicle model periodicity to say 5 years, hypothetically, and forcing new models to be evaluated by a government safety and economics team, to ensure that a new model, such as a vehicle or a graphics card, meets guidelines in being more beneficial to the public overall, and not just to big companies, because those who work for them are citizens of the US and/or Texas as well, which would mean that if a people are losing to their own company, it must be to the benefit of the citizens of another nation, which is a matter of national security…expanding these evaluations to a larger spectrum of the public would be a good idea, perhaps allowing a test run of several thousand units, which would be purchased by customers who earn the right to participate in these programs through qualifications above and beyond the normal citizen to wit…they would exclusively purchase the product and participate in the evaluations in return for a reduced purchase price and the right to use an exclusive experimental newer model (though perhaps with more risk), overall increasing evaluation effectiveness and lowering the chances of bribing the government (with so many evaluators).
 
Just for quick instance, I bought a new truck of the same model and had to change the serpentine belt, which is on the front of the engine and runs the pumps and such off of the main shaft via a system of wheels/pulleys.  These belts have been the same design now for about a century and use a tensioner to tension the belt into place.  Well, these tensioners are almost identical between vehicles of all makes and models, save for the position of the stay notch which also determines angle.  The notches of the tensioner for my new truck and the model series before it were just barely different and I distinctly noted that the engine could have been designed to use the same part.  In fact, I have noticed a whole litany of these issues and similar in consumer products and I believe it is due to lagging consumer protection laws, which are most likely being exacerbated at their root core by a lack up updated governance infrastructure such as an eGov type system.  Now, we have to be careful here because if we don’t watch the background of what we might be frantically shooting at now that we have been woken from our collective napping, we might miss the fact that it would still be important to refresh interchangeable part designs from time to time too, so that older parts are not used too much, which can cause catastrophic failure, though can cause more overall failures the other way around, clogging up the economy’s infrastructure by having more than one different part that does the same thing for ever vehicle, grinding things to a halt in order for them to be fixed, which deep down I suspect is the real reason it is being done by these big companies, because the employees who work there are Citizens and recognize the need for these laws to arbitrated effectively, and so they might go out of their way to actually ADD stress to an already stressful situation by changing the design of the same part for a new series of model, SPECIFICALLY to be able to better compel a court of law or a people in general to accept the fact that, yes, indeed there are issues which need to be addressed and government more becoming.  It’s better to be on the conservative side but not too much, because after all, advancements must come, like the mfg machines and processes for parts in general, to keep those perhaps more important sectors progressive above all.  It would be good to let market forces find that happy medium bestly, by allowing litigation to unfurl in the timeliest manners possible, in the same way that a ball rolls down a hill­.  Little protections like that, which would be a cinch with and up to date system, save a lot of hassle
 
Creating adverse cultures around such things as our own home-team-world surely would lead ourselves to psychological stress and trauma; debasing the good, natural competitive spirit off into foolishness, which becomes dangerous as people struggle to play king of the road while mama foots the bill, risking the pressures of generating illegal markets to beat the Joneses, chasing eachothers' tails around as devaluation from poor technology inclines one to look good everywhere but court. 
 
Better consumer regulations would slow bad things down and speed bad things up, allowing for better workmanship and more time to design systems, with parts which integrate well from one platform to the next, and from one past to one future, so that less parts are wasted, minimizing losses there, as well as making techs', mechanics’, and researchers lives less hectic and much, much better...they will have more time to input into eGov and streamline processes and then make it to the superbowl happy, da end!! 
 
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it” should be taken seriously, maybe not as serious as a heart-attack but likely about as much as a car accident or a carbon footprint.  Who knows, maybe we could get some adaptive suspension mandated too, but definitely should get things which save costs and the environment at the same time like eturbos, which I am so much for that I have a separate post on that.
 
Greater control over electronics and machinery in our government pragmatically translates into greater control over electronics and machinery in our economic environment.  Once we get caught up with a general cleaning and organization of our government, people who would wish to do the same in their own lives could ACTUALLY accomplish soly, which is the main reason why I'm so crazy about Texit and virtually nothing else, this era...I'm one of those people who doesn't strike unless the iron is hot.  What is the point of living perfectly organized in your own house when your government resembles the house of an allegorical meth addict horder with early onset alzheimers and too many cats and dogs everywhere?..it's just as spiritually gross, and likely causing people to go crazy in the first place like that.  Why materially cleanly people don't go crazy these days is just anyone's guess, but then again, things themselves wouldn't be worth removing if they weren’t able to cause confusions like that...the devil would all but of course have his own alibis.