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Aggregate demand.

In economics, the aggregate demand, often called the effective demand is the total demand for final goods and services in the economy at a given time and price. It often indicates that higher outputs are usually demanded at lower price levels. This means that the markets demand automated, high value, massed produced products.

From the book "The Northirst Student 
failed to understand"
included with the Minnie Cut.

The following is an excerpt from the book....The Northirst Student Overlooked.

Shawn, the economy was fumblin'....I didn't have 25 or 30 years to read an economics book about machines. I dived into that thing, I tore the binding off.... We needed to move up....not left or right, or right or wrong.  We were  in a hole, and we got movin.  

The only problem is that the solutions to every problems are often sought afterwards, as an afterthought and as  the last resort.   An old saying is: When the student is ready, the lesson will appear,  though it may not be received.  People don't want the message yet, or the lessons, but want only what they need to stay safe in the eyes of others, and all their opinions.   They want to appear correct in almost everything,  be acceptable and feel comfortable with that.  They don't want a coach until one is necessary.    Most want to get what everyone else gets, so they want what the tool or whatever machine seems to be the best fit, or the best looking.   In other words, critical thinking  was out of fashion,  and no normal person it seemed wanted to discover what an operation was, or about manufacturing techniques and methods.  In the beginning they want tools and advice, and they want most of all to be acceptable tools and qualified advice, and  especially from the same acceptable source.  

Shawn,  it seemed we were fightin all the time.  Hollywood creates hundreds of billions of dollars.  Movie producers and directors are not sentimental or angry at each (some might say they don't have principles though.)  They don't fuss about how each company does things, or have sentimentalities.  Hollywood is a tough place, even though it's work rules don't seem so.  They are actors and artists there, and they don't try to dominate each others thinking.  They create billions and billions of dollars worldwide by doing things different from most traditional businesses.  

Sure, they follow a science, they follow empirical, scientific rules, colors, and standards with their machines, which seasons to film a movie, their locations, and the average audience ages and demographics.  They don't deviate from what works, yet they don't get bent all out of shape or sentimental when others do.  They are open to progress, but they still establish a style that works and employ that style wherever they can.   Most individuals with a new tool, or an unfamiliar machine bounce from one technique to tool another, rarely stopping and discovering a system or sticking with duplicating a great idea. 

Shawn, in Hollywood, they all know what their machines are capable of, and they build upon what they think sells.  They don't say; "hey, lets look and see if anybody will accept what we make." They would all be out of business if they did.  Some producers do shoot hundreds of hours of film, and they trim it down into a 2 hour movie.  They just get a bunch of ideas and they produce things, and trim things along the way.  And many fail, but the ones that don't fail create billions in economic activity.  They are not sentimental or angry, they create billions by doing things different.  You can't do that with a machine.  A machine is programmed to follow a system to the tee.  

Like a surgeon, you get the machine to work within a system,  within certain parameters.   The average person doesn't have the skills that can be performed by a machine, or by a robot like the ones used for many operations with building cars.  Like the moves of a surgeon, or a movie maker, a machine can be programmed with an average model, for each part, and with some human tweaks and adjustments, it will stay as close to proven methods  and standards that it is capable of.  But again, many people with a machine bounce from one technique to another, rarely stopping and duplicating a great idea.   

Shawn, it is like your aunt and her cookbook. The best recipe is the one you always want, but rarely get a second time.   The best recipe is rarely duplicated because she wants to try every other 700 recipes she has access to. In the movie industry, they don't try different stories.  They use just one story at a time and make a movie.   In Hollywood, they work for years, they build huge sets, they create the movie, and then after it is done, it gets mass produced,  put into millions upon millions of packages and sold.  The set doesn't get mass produced, the tools and machines don't, the final capture does.  The machine and the tools are a means to an end.  The means to a product. 

Why must it be that "Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least"  

Again, most people don't realize that machines are built to be a part of an operation.  When they are in peak order, they duplicate the work, to optimize efficiency. Then the different components aggregate to where people assemble them into an economical, tradable product of value.  Nobody discussed a business angle, a mass production angle for machinery when I was first learning all about machines.  Why would we need mass production?   Tools, especially woodworking tools are not always looked at as being a means to an end, but the means to do something else, to make anything out of wood, usually for a pastime.  

Shawn, after High School woodshop 40 years ago, I was only concerned about wood for the shop, or finding plans for woodworking or the right tools for woodworking.  After I collected all these things, they sat for years and years before I discovered a secret.  The secret was that I only specialized in finding out about tools and machines at the right price, and wasn't concerned about a method.  I neglected the part about how machines can put a glimmer on the faces of certain people.  Many people waste their spare energy, they even waste their whole lives, but those who discover the potential of machines rarely want to lose that lust. I discovered that you can't recruit people into business or engineering like it was the Navy.  The only way to do it is to awaken a curiosity, and to let them know that there are many more things to learn.  

Putting  the famous series "Survivor "on Television for example is not a solution to the economy. It is a solution for those who want to watch it, and those who choose to produce it and make a profit in a free market.   Putting "economic survivor" is what might have had an affect.  Operation Survivor, or "tool envy survivor" would be more appropriate. Again, most people are concerned about tools for the right price, able to afford anything, yet they ignore learning what really matters, like jigs and putting together an operation.

 So, "aggregate demand" is an economic term.  The total demand for finished goods at a given time and price.  It indicates that higher outputs are demanded at lower price levels. This means that the markets demand or in theory, demand automated, high value, massed produced products.  The means to this end is automation.  The means to this end is automation, not sentimentalism for tradition, politics, or old ideas.

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The Old Man said:  " The village peers of the Middle Age artists who were never discovered 
weren't color blind, but unaware of the wealth in combining ideas along with other shapes or colors. 
Your peers Shawn, may be skilled, but are unaware of the wealth in combinations.  People in general are 
more uniform, while diversity enables more products, more choices, more economic assurance."

 " In  my days Shawn, people put more effort into a show horse than into initiating a process resulting in 
economic providence. You need to read it, poke a stick at it, go ahead and you'll see where my talents 
were honed from."

Shawn thanked the Old man for the book and when he read it;  it was like a 
wall of granite bricks falling on him. "It was like my ears were broken before. Machines 
never looked the same again."  Most people spend and spend, and they ignore the real 
techniques that machines were built for.   Read "The Northirst Student Overlooked"

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