Backpressure, Factory Analogy and Socialism - Quinn

Created: 2021-02-12T15:36:17-06:00

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Clogging: when some process pushes more things (screws) than are needed.

Backpressure: when some process factory step signals it is being clogged; "we don't need any more screws!!"

Model: A car factory with too many incoming screws and not enough incoming things to be attached with screws.

• Imagine the screw factory cannot move more screws because the car factory does not have enough things to attach with screws.
• The screw factory then complains there are more screws than holes (jobs.)
• The government then legislates that the car factory must accept more screws by fiat.
• The car factory hires staff to accept excess screw boxes and place them directly in the landfill.
• The state now incurs a permanent ongoing debt as useless work is done and discarded†.

† But at least politicians get to feel like they did something.