New rules
it would be nice to enforce some sort of upgrades on people and thinking, wouldn't it.
If you operate or work in a nuclear power plant you must live within 5 miles of said plant. No more than 50% of upper management may be outside that range at any given time, and all must maintain residency by being there 70% of the year. Local inspectors on a 5 year rotation also have to live there and be employed by the NRC and only the NRC, not the company running the reactor.
Japan ran their reactors well over life limit because they were cheap, corrupt, and lazy. If not all than enough. We're doing the same thing. India does it more. Who will feel sympathy for us and them when it blows up? I'd like for us to stop thinking of individuals and families and lost homes, failing that I'd like for the people who caused it to get punished. IE The company execs, the contractors, the government, etc.
Same as Wall Street. I like how nobody but a complete idiot says the term "free market economy" and "United States" in the same sentence without "isn't", or "never was", or "probably shouldn't be", or "never could be"... or if they do they're saying it with a smile and conspiratorial wink. China does the same thing. Here, however, the government is simply a tool of the business, hello bailout. A free market economy is only free until the companies involved start tinkering with it to make sure they stay up top. The silly idea that they wouldn't bend or break every rule to prevent their own collapse is juvenile.
There is no higher power. There are no higher laws. There is no higher ethic. In nuclear power or economics or anywhere else. Just what we enforce on ourselves and each other.
What lessons are we teaching our children?
Easy to sit back and think we can't change it. Apathy is the stock and trade of our nation. It's someone else's problem. We elect people and make it their problem, and then tell them not to bring it up in front of us, just fix it. Then we demand they do it for free or we start meddling.
So how do we fix that? Define the problem, really. Break it down. What needs to be fixed and how can we fix it? Don't think about tomorrow, think of it as larger. It's a long term problem with these last two generations, how can we set up the children to be better? You know they're going to have to deal with genetic manipulation, zero privacy, increased radiation(s), expensive fuel, and the realization that plastic and the chemicals within are causing most of our cancers, defects, and shortages.
None of that is a bad thing, remind yourself. The end of the cheap lunch and hidden check can't come quickly enough. But how do we set ourselves up to take advantage of it, long term?
Idea one: Teach children that credit and credit systems are horrible horrible ideas. Accountancy from a young age and learning to live on what you can afford. Let them know and learn how little they need that's being sold to them.
Others percolate within me, but I can't put voice to them.
If you operate or work in a nuclear power plant you must live within 5 miles of said plant. No more than 50% of upper management may be outside that range at any given time, and all must maintain residency by being there 70% of the year. Local inspectors on a 5 year rotation also have to live there and be employed by the NRC and only the NRC, not the company running the reactor.
Japan ran their reactors well over life limit because they were cheap, corrupt, and lazy. If not all than enough. We're doing the same thing. India does it more. Who will feel sympathy for us and them when it blows up? I'd like for us to stop thinking of individuals and families and lost homes, failing that I'd like for the people who caused it to get punished. IE The company execs, the contractors, the government, etc.
Same as Wall Street. I like how nobody but a complete idiot says the term "free market economy" and "United States" in the same sentence without "isn't", or "never was", or "probably shouldn't be", or "never could be"... or if they do they're saying it with a smile and conspiratorial wink. China does the same thing. Here, however, the government is simply a tool of the business, hello bailout. A free market economy is only free until the companies involved start tinkering with it to make sure they stay up top. The silly idea that they wouldn't bend or break every rule to prevent their own collapse is juvenile.
There is no higher power. There are no higher laws. There is no higher ethic. In nuclear power or economics or anywhere else. Just what we enforce on ourselves and each other.
What lessons are we teaching our children?
Easy to sit back and think we can't change it. Apathy is the stock and trade of our nation. It's someone else's problem. We elect people and make it their problem, and then tell them not to bring it up in front of us, just fix it. Then we demand they do it for free or we start meddling.
So how do we fix that? Define the problem, really. Break it down. What needs to be fixed and how can we fix it? Don't think about tomorrow, think of it as larger. It's a long term problem with these last two generations, how can we set up the children to be better? You know they're going to have to deal with genetic manipulation, zero privacy, increased radiation(s), expensive fuel, and the realization that plastic and the chemicals within are causing most of our cancers, defects, and shortages.
None of that is a bad thing, remind yourself. The end of the cheap lunch and hidden check can't come quickly enough. But how do we set ourselves up to take advantage of it, long term?
Idea one: Teach children that credit and credit systems are horrible horrible ideas. Accountancy from a young age and learning to live on what you can afford. Let them know and learn how little they need that's being sold to them.
Others percolate within me, but I can't put voice to them.