Thanksgiving Sale at Mall of the America

Did you get to K-Mart yesterday at 5:00AM for their early  after Thanksgiving Sale? How about JC_Pennys at 6:00AM? Did you make it by SEARS at 7:00AM?

New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called on all Americans to go out to the stores this weekend and buy, buy, buy.

Is this the best way for people to exchange goods and services? Our present fair market is what synergic science calls a product tensegrity.

Product Tensegrity

When we obtain help from others by payment of money, we are entering into the Product Tensegrity. Now in the Fair Market, products are the actionswe need to purchase to meet our needs. Products include knowingin the form of expertise, consultation, and counseling. Products includeactionin the form of physical labor and services. And products include leverslike tools, appliances, automobiles, computers, homes, food, etc., etc., created by action to meet our needs.

Now if we examine these products, we discover they are continuously made available in the fair market by sellers for sale to buyers who only occasionally purchase them. And so we see the emergence of theProduct Tensegrity. Products are continuously available and pullingon the buyer to enter the fair market, but the buyer is only occasionally interested in making a purchase. Many of our stores are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year — continuously pulling. But, I only shop on Friday afternoons — discontinuously pushinginto the fair market.

Maybe there is a better way for humans to meet their needs. Maybe there is a better way for humans to exchange goods and services.

See what I am talking about:

Gift Tensegrity  (brief draft)

 

Gift Tensegrity  (more complete draft and discussion)

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