A reminder that all these are in play given the system upsetting effects of climate. The grid, the financialmsystem, suupplu lines…
Thinking about AI and climate led us to some thinking about the implications of their combined action. Unhinging property valuations would be one such effect. There would be Manny like that. It let us to raise questions about the meaning of
capital surplus, from new head (cap, Latin) of cattle
Money. (From a finger pointing to notches on a stick named after the treasury building in Athens)
To ownership, which seems more obscure.
To property (what is proper to a man of rank to show his position in society)
Private. We think of it as a base but the word comes from latin pri vatus - to remove from society. The reverse of our normal thinking.