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Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:39:20 +0200
On 17/Mar/20 23:47, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
Decisions are no longer based on the greater good or on anticipating worst case scenarios or on maximizing preparedness or anything that we might hope they're based on. They're based, coldly and calculatingly, on money. If you want this to change -- and I sure would like it to change -- then money needs to be entirely removed from that calculation. That is a problem whose solution lies outside the scope of NANOG.
<off_topic> I've been saying, quietly to friends for a while now, that this system of money is stretching all of us to the limit, because we are all chasing it. In this age of Coronavirus, what good is money if the supermarket shelves are empty? What good is money if people are dead? Also, money works because not all of us have it - and yet the goal of any society is to put it in everyone's hands. So then, what's the real value [of money] if everyone has the ability to pay everyone? Between the Coronavirus and the love spats between Russia and Saudi Arabia, "artificial" markets have lost 20% of their value. Some economies with less advanced markets are finding value in other "less artificial" things, so they can get their toilet paper, hehe :-). </off_topic> Seriously though, I echo Rich's comments - this isn't a problem NANOG can solve, but if the Coronavirus has taught us anything, it's that we seriously need to re-evaluate this "modern humanity" thing we are all trying to build, and live. Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: It's not about the congestion, it's about the profit motive driving the industry, (continued)
- Re: It's not about the congestion, it's about the profit motive driving the industry Mark Tinka (Mar 21)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Owen DeLong (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Rich Kulawiec (Mar 17)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keith Medcalf (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Rich Kulawiec (Mar 18)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keith Medcalf (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 19)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. (Mar 18)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keith Medcalf (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mike Hammett (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Mar 24)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Alexandre Petrescu (Mar 24)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Seth Mattinen (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Tom Beecher (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)