Entity With Need (EWN):
I need an x to do y!
Entity That Can Provide (ETCP):
Let me make x for you! I can provide x at very low cost, lower than other ETCPs!
EWN:
Great! I will buy x from you and then I can do y!
Interlude…(sounds of making- clanking, bells, toots, bumps, chunks, chops, sawz, motors, horses, squeaks, etc. use imagination here- or visit local ETCP making space and record)
ETCP:
Here ya go!
EWN:
Thanks! Now I will use the x to do y.
(does y with x for a while)
EWN:
Well I finished doing y. I don’t need x anymore. I want to do a now, so I need a new thing z.
But I don’t have space for a z!
What will I do?! hmm.
I know! I will sell x to another entity that wants to do y! Then I will have space for a z.
Hello World! Is there another entity that needs an x to do y?
Another Entity That Wants To Do Something Like Y (AETWTDSLY):
I do! I need an x to do something like y!
EWN:
Great! I will sell x to you. I am so happy!
AETWTDSLY:
Wonderful! I will buy x from you and then I can do something like y. I am so happy too!
EWN:
Here ya go!
AETWTDSLY:
Thanks! Now I will use x to do something like y.
(does something like y with x for a while)
AETWTDSLY:
I finished doing something like y! Yes! I am so productive.
And it was clever of me to buy a used x, because I saved.
I don’t need x anymore. I need to do c now, so I need a new thing b.
But I don’t have space for a b!
What will I do!?
I know, I will sell x to another entity that wants to do y!
Then I will have space for a b.
Hello World! Is there another entity that needs an x to do y?
AAETWTDSLY:
I do! I’ll buy it!
Wash rinse repeat (Intermission: again soundscape can be of makers and doers and marketers, making, doing, and marketing. Sounds of resting can also be included. A bit of natural sound can be added depending on audience and intended message)
Act 0 Scene 2 The World, Entities therein, and the Muse
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Awesome. Done!! Yes!!!
I don’t need x anymore.
I want to do q now, so I need a new thing p.
But I don’t have space for a p! What will I do!?
I know, I will sell x to another entity that wants to do y!
Then I will have space for a p.
World, Is there another entity that needs an x to do y?
World:
… (silence, then sound of crickets)
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Hello World, are you there? Is there another another entity wanting to do y that will buy my used x?
It still works great!
World:
we don’t use x anymore to do things like y.
We use a new x+. It is faster, and cheaper, and more efficient.
No one wants your old x.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
What should I do with my x? No one wants it!
I want to do q with a p but the only space I have is occupied by an x!!! Oh no!
I need to think…
(sounds of thinking, if you can think of what thinking sounds like)
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Hold on, I know just what to do: I will throw x away.
The World doesn’t need it anymore.
(fog and sounds of fog horn, maritime soundscape. Sounds of effort and large splashes. Muse emerges from the fog)
Muse:
you know what A~AAETWTDSLY? That is kind of a waste.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
What are you? Where did you come from?
Muse:
Oi. Always with the questions. You know me.
Now let’s talk..
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Piss off, Muse. I am busy externalizing.
(sounds of dumping, dropping, falling, throwing)
Muse:
Yes, so I see. Like I said, a bit of a waste, no?
There is matter in x that can be reused to make a t.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Yeah? Good luck getting the matter out of x! Non-trivial muse-dude.
Muse-dude:
True, but there must be a way… don’t you think?
A~AAETWTDSLY:
I try not too.
Muse-dude:
True. But still, there must be a way…
A~AAETWTDSLY:
There’s no way, forget about it, too hard, not interested, buzz off I am busy doing q with this p.
(continues distractedly doing q)
Muse-dude:
It might be worth your while…
A~AAETWTDSLY:
What is your deal Muse-dude?
Extracting matter out x is really expensive and requires special conditions so that other entities and the World don’t get hurt. So please go away.
Muse-dude:
Have you heard about that thing that Satoshi Nakamoto thought of while standing on the shoulders of giants?
A~AAETWTDSLY:
What, bitcoin? Of course I have. Do you think I was born yesterday? He launched that block-o-rama idea into the World, I hear about it in the news. I heard the coins might be worth something someday….
Muse-dude:
Something is an understatement of monumental proportion. And someday might be sooner than you think. But to get back to the problem at hand…
A~AAETWTDSLY:
What problem? There is no problem, everything is fine. Peachy.
Though it is getting a little warm in here.
Muse-dude:
yes, isn’t it?
The problem was how to make it worth your while to extract the matter from x.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Dude, if you can make it worth my time, that would be awesome, cuz then I could sell the matter back to an Entity That Can Provide.
They are always buying matter to make things to do stuff.
Muse-dude:
Indeed they are, and the World likes to do lots of stuff, doesn’t it. We all have interesting needs and wants that require stuff.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
You’re telling me! We are doing so much with so much all over the place all of a sudden.
So how are you going to make it worth my time? Time is money, dude.
Muse-dude:
So I have heard.
Well how about this: what if the Entity That Can Provide embedded some value in x and other things? Then at the end of life for x, the value could be released if someone did a particular something.
World:
(as a chorus, in singsong) We love value, we love value, we want value,
we want value, we value value, val, val, val, oh, valllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue!
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Alright Muse-dude, I’ll play along with your little game. How do I get the embedded value out of x?
What do I have to do?
Muse-dude:
In order to get the value, which by the way, might be a coin called Ohm stored on a chip embedded in x, you would need to extract the component matter embodied in x.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
So if I want Ohm, I need to separate x into the matter that composes it?
Muse-dude:
Exactly.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Why would I want Ohm in the first place?
Muse-dude:
A~AAETWTDSLY, me thinks thou art a bit thick. Did we not mention bitcoin earlier? Ohm is a sidechain token pegged to bitcoin! The value of Ohm is set on the open market, and the market is a network composed of Entities. Ohm can always be converted back to bitcoin if the Entity so wishes. And there are many Entities, and lots stuff to do, and many things to make. Ohm will be fine. It just greases the skids a bit- reduces the friction, the resistance to material recovery. It’s the juice… So sayeth the muse.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Muse, you might want to come back to reality now. I think your head’s so far up your backside, you’re brushing the stratosphere. You know how much it costs to extract matter? Who is going to pay for that? How the hell does the Ohm get into x in the first place? Fail, man!
Muse-dude:
Entities That Can Provide would purchase enough Ohm to embed a finder’s fee and a matter extraction fee into every thing they make.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Welcome to low-earth-orbit, Muse. You may now unbuckle your restraints. Actually, don’t. You worry me.
For the sake of argument, though, Entities That Can Provide hate adding costs to things like x.
Some other Entity will undercut them. This idea is bound to fail.
Muse-dude:
True. Entities That Can Provide are indeed always looking for the cheapest way to make x. But why? Because Entities With Needs are always happy with lower cost, and one thing that ETCP are obsessed with is making their EWN happy. So ETCP reduce costs..
(sound of cost cutting, avoidance, negation)
Muse-dude:
But…
Price is not the only thing that EWNs care about.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
Dude, price is all that counts. You can throw a mart at a wall but you can’t make it stick. It has been proven.
Muse-dude:
Listen, there are Entities and then There Are Entities. Some are willing to pay a bit more for value-added. Just look at Premium Economy. Pure Genius.
Entities That Market know exactly what makes you all tick. They could have you buying sand at a beach! Or tulips! Lunacy. Mania!… But I digress.
There are EWN that don’t want to throw x away at EOL. They have concerns, feelings, guilt: the whole meatspace shebang of messed up e-moe-shunnns. ETCP will do anything to keep these EWN happy.
If an EWN With Feelings says it will pay extra for an x with embedded Ohm, extract the material using the Ohm Matter Extraction Network instead, then the ETCP will do it.
Just like that.
Boot. Strap.
A~AAETWTDSLY:
I know a few EWNWF that would think this is a cool idea. OMEN, hmmm.
Muse-dude:
ETCP are always competing with each other to provide EWNWFs with cool, new things.
World:
(in singsong) Ohmmmm, how much Ohmmm, How many Ohmmmmm, many many Ohmmmm, O so many Ohmmmm. Om mani padme ommmm.
ETCP:
Yeah, how are we going to know how much Ohm it will cost to extract the matter from x?
Muse-dude:
You can ask Entities That Can Extract .
ETCE:
We know, we can tell you how much it would cost to extract matter from x!
World:
I wonder if this is actually going to work? It just sounds so hare-brained! And those ETCE are rascally. Never know if they will extract well.
But one thing is for sure, even if a rich EWNWF throws away an x, there will be another Entity That Wants that will pick up x and take it to an OMEN ETCE.
ETW:
You know we would! We love collecting old stuff that has embedded value in the embodied matter and bringing it to ETCE. If you embed some Ohm as a finders fee, all the better. We can convert it to bitcoin and humbly stack sats!
ETCE;
We will try to cheat, but we know many will be watching our outputs. Instead, we will secretly innovate and find a way to extract matter for less Ohm than the embedded matter extraction fee. Then we will get to keep more Ohm!
ETCP:
We will innovate too. If we can make it easier to extract matter from something like x, then we don’t have to buy as much Ohm up front. We could pass on the savings to our EWN.
World:
We can do this because we can, so I guess we will.
Entr’act (sounds of the world)
(write Act 1 once OMEN is happening for real)