The Jackuul Blog

Now then, I have covered both the ways this will be done, the infrastructure and the building costs. You might now be asking yourself the question of: “How will this make revenue, and how will it benefit me?”  Well to look at it economically what we are doing is increasing the amounts of possible input by increasing speed and effectiveness and capacity, which is all fine and dandy - however the principal of diminishing returns tells us that eventually if we only focus on one aspect we will make less and less each time, until the marginal cost outweighs the benefits. That’s why we do more than one. Power input is increased (making of a huge capacity), road speed is increased (making for faster production time), workers get to where they need to go faster (meaning workers are more efficient), car production for the new cars is increased (meaning there is an industry improved by this project), demand for labor is increased (meaning all the other inputs are causing the workers to be needed - another input), and demand for goods is increased as trade speeds quadruples (because now people get it faster, better, and more efficient than before). The only thing that remains static is that people still need to go places (and they always will). But, because there are constantly more and more people, this increases the demand for better ways of doing that. As more commerce, trade, and productivity is increased the more my government will benefit off of consumption taxes while providing back with more capital investments in infrastructure.

The cost of building this will be a government cost, which means it will use up more domestic goods and services, causing more imports - wait, that’s right, it is WORLD WIDE so - the entire world’s economy adjusts to this. There will be greater scarcity of the goods and services I will need to use in the project, which does mean prices will increase, and demand will increase - demand for innovation and replacement products made out of alternate materials will increase too, along with recycling. It is true that many people will need to switch to inferior products; however it is not true that this project will ruin the world’s economy. Because of the enormous amount of employment needing to be supplied people will make a living off of the 10-20 years of massive construction across the world. If you factor in that the government will have a large supply of non-human workforce to compensate for much of the law enforcement, health care, and legislation - the jobs will offset.

In the end you get a greater demand from suppliers, you get a greater demand for workers and you get an increased standard of living. When the jobs are finished on these roadways of the Electric Future people will be unemployed for a while - spurring businesses to create jobs. With this expanded capital investment in infrastructure thousands of new businesses could crop up because of the speeds now obtainable. Because no trucks would be allowed on these highways - trains would be the future of transporting mail, transporting livestock, and transporting generally everything. Millions of jobs will be needed for the new demands in shipping - best of all these trains follow the same electric future principals. Speed, accuracy, efficiency, and of course safety to you and the environment you live in are all things this, and I, shall bring to you humans.

Technology will be one of the biggest factors in this overhaul, computer programmers and network specialists will be needed by the million, so will advance metallurgy and plastic companies. Don’t worry; it’s not as if my government would let these people go after such a feat as this: I have many, many, more projects to complete before the world is a better place - including the harvesting of materials not on our planet.

In my view, the economic benefits of doing this in the long run will by far outweigh the costs and hardships in the short run - which is the risk I take by making a capital investment in the future.

1. CO2 is decreased overall by the cutting of 90% of the sources it comes from - this means we don’t lose land to water levels rising rapidly and we avoid the worst economic outcome of the annihilation of planet Earth. We also get to keep the polar bears, penguins, and Antarctica.  Antarctica is probably the most important place for the future empire.

2. The roadways provide a faster means to get to work - people who live further away from their jobs can now do so cheaply with a commute 4x faster. Instead of people needing to be 30 miles out to make it to work in 30 minutes - they can be nearly 120 miles out. Those who are used to even longer commutes, over several hundred miles for meeting or because they have a job out of town, can save time and increase productivity by getting to work in a fraction of the time.

3. Insurance costs will decline and insurance companies will make more from the safety and lack of Moral Hazards.

4. Jobs created and skills taught here will give the human workforce a greater knowledge and advantage world wide - everyone who participates will need to be trained in skills that they would not normally learn in what is considered the “3rd World.”

5. Living standards and income with a standard unit of trade would boost their GDPs and boost their living conditions.

6. There are many more I could list but this one will be the last one I do here - in addition to all of these wonderful things - the excess food that has been for years stockpiled and stored away to keep farmers making money will evaporate overnight as the work will demand more nutrition - farmers worldwide will profit off of the food demand, and the ability to be paid for the food - along with ethanol crops.

In closing - the entire world’s standards of living will rise to an equal level, and hopefully this means that the number of starving and/or illiterate and homeless will fall to all time lows as people are educated for this project and become assets to the overall world economy. At the end of the construction prices will fall, things will normalize from the massive amount of hyperactivity, and then the men and women with this new knowledge and productivity will be able to put it to use in thousands of new industries and commercial markets. Everyone gets the benefits off of this without the need for income redistribution of any kind.