You folks are way too positive about this. As we have global weather change a new stimulus will come into place and it will be led by pest control. We are experiencing the vanguard here in New York City where a whole new industry is springing up to deal with bedbugs. I call it the Republican stimulus package. It's akin to the guy who goes down the street breaking windows and then give cards away about a special deal on replacing windows.
Here in NYCity bedbugs are epidemic. The old system of chemicals has broken down because of the other industry, allergies, that has made so many adults incapable of tolerating pesticides. You can forget the eagles. These people are violently allergic to the environment and so the best remedy for pests is hot air with a lot of steam. (and I'm not talking about this list either, it won't kill bedbugs.:>)) You have a dog trained for $20,000 that is starved (only fed when it discovers bedbugs, at the end of the day, no bedbugs means the dog returns to the office where dead bedbugs are hidden and discovered and then the dog gets one meal. The dogs look like concentration camp survivors.) The dogs inspects Abercrombie and Fitch, Nike, Citibank, etc. The public transportation is said to be covered with them including taxis, buses and trains. They are in the walls of buildings etc. The cost of an extermination can run up to $5,000 for a simple apartment with the entire apartment being taken apart, put into plastic containers, steam heat treated and then reassembled only to be re-infected and started over again. The possibilities here are limitless. People removing their clothes at the door, being sprayed with alcohol which kills the little buggers. Its like a voyeurs delight. Far superior to the full body scans in the airport. It feeds Islamophobia because they won't take off their clothes. Orthodox Jewish women as well. It is the perfect storm. I see it replacing all industries in productivity with the exception of the financial industry that is really the big brother of the bedbug industry. I spoke to one person from the provinces who spoke of the problem in houses. It took two years and a lot of cold weather to solve the problem. You can imagine the problem in a big hi-rise apartment house. Then there's China with all of those people. Unlimited market with global weather change and the decline of nicotine products that kills both people and bedbugs. Raise you both and is that all you got? REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 7:04 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Both schools are wrong Keith is of course wrong both in the specifics and in the general... The largest and fastest growing consumer good (both elite and mass) is the "experience industry" including packaged mass travel at one end and individual thrill seeking adventure travel at the other (bungee jumping). The market/demand for this is likely insatiable this side of impossibly expensive transportation costs... If nothing else China will drive this market both internationally and internally. The lovely thing about the "experience industry" as compared to any of the other "iconic goods" is that the demand for it can never be satisfied--once you've climbed the tallest 5 peaks there are always another 10 waiting in the wings, more Disneylands to visit, the Grand Canyon then the predator icons in Zurich and Manhattan and even the anti-bit tax palaces in Silicon Valley... (there, I did it too and raised you one Ed ;-) M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pete Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 5:35 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Both schools are wrong On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Keith Hudson wrote: > At 12:32 29/10/2010 +0200, Chris wrote: > >Keith challenged: > > > Find me a new consumer product that's highly desirable by the > > > rich, very expensive -- say, equivalent to what the car was in the > > > 1910s/20s -- but capable of repeated phases of mass production > > > until it reaches down to everybody in due course. > > > >How about space tourism? > >Mark Shuttleworth paid 20m, now it's getting cheaper... > > About as attractive for most as bungee-jumping I'd suggest (and that's > free!). > > Keith Where did you get that idea? It is both popular and lucrative. People line up for the opportunity, as they do for sky diving, etc. They do have one day a year at the operation on the gorge near Nanaimo where they offer free jumping as a promotion, but only if you agree to jump naked. If space travel was a cheap as bungee jumping, the planet would be rapidly emptied (assuming destinations which such a condition would allow to be constructed). -Pete _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
