Tag: dailyprompt-1814

You can’t breathe? Let me sell you some ‘air’. You have no money. That means you have no ‘demand’ for our air supply effectively. Can I sell your relatives a funeral?

January 7, 2026

Our ideas of what might be sold at a cost that allows for profit to its investors, rather than just payment for the technicians that discover and refine it from sources, has been deeply influenced by water. Consider this blog post (full post linked here) which posits that some people already pay to breathe air, … More You can’t breathe? Let me sell you some ‘air’. You have no money. That means you have no ‘demand’ for our air supply effectively. Can I sell your relatives a funeral?

‘Fictile worlds’: a business in the interests of pretensive human well-being aimed at consumers we know to be the ‘most fingent plastic of creatures’.

January 2, 2025

The choice of vocabulary to describe the world we are always trying to shape around us and our needs – either in societies, groups or as individuals – is sometimes the most urgent issue in those worlds. This may be because our chief business as meaning-makers and users of meaning is to get things done … More ‘Fictile worlds’: a business in the interests of pretensive human well-being aimed at consumers we know to be the ‘most fingent plastic of creatures’.