Chris Gage

Senior Manager, Digital @ Trojena

[Handre @Handre]

Karl Marx gave humanity its most murderous idea: that human suffering stems not from scarcity and the human condition, but from private property itself. This bearded parasite—who never worked a day in his life and lived off Engels' textile fortune—convinced generations that voluntary exchange was exploitation while violent redistribution was justice.

The body count speaks for itself. Stalin's forced collectivization murdered 6 million Ukrainians through engineered famine. Mao's Great Leap Forward killed 45 million through sheer economic illiteracy. Pol Pot slaughtered a quarter of Cambodia's population. And every single time, the intellectuals proclaimed it "wasn't real socialism." The pattern is identical across continents and centuries: seize private property, centrally plan production, watch millions starve.

But the intellectual foundation was always rotten. Marx's labor theory of value—the notion that labor alone creates value—was already debunked by Austrian economists like Böhm-Bawerk before the ink was dry on Das Kapital. Value is subjective, determined by individual preferences in voluntary exchange. Marx simply couldn't grasp that the capitalist performs the crucial function of time preference—sacrificing present consumption for uncertain future returns.

Even "democratic socialism" in Western Europe required massive wealth transfers from productive individuals to bureaucratic parasites, creating permanent dependency classes and stagnating growth. Venezuela had the world's largest oil reserves and still managed to create toilet paper shortages. Cuba turned a Caribbean paradise into a floating prison where doctors flee on rafts.

Every socialist experiment ends the same way: empty shelves, secret police, and intellectuals explaining why the next attempt will be different.

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

@clivepafc Brilliant! You and the team leading the way in intelligent, self aware analysis. And the fact that the club are recognising this makes it even more clear that there's something special going on from top to bottom ✊😁

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

@Neil_BIM 😂

[ZERO Construct @zer0construct]

Winner winner !!! Thanks @MissionRoomLtd !!!!

[Steve Woolcombe @SWoolcombe]

We are looking add depth to our senior squad for the coming season, and welcome all players of all abilitie to join us.

DM For more details.

📆 Training: Tue & Thur 7-9pm
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[Basingstoke Mens Rugby @BasRFCMens]

The seniors are again in action this week, our final pre-season game before our league campaign commences. We are hoping for a huge home crowd to cheer on the lads. @Wheats_rugby @BasRFC 🏉⬇️📅

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

@Neil_BIM Would be a similar story re violence https://t.co/oxgQnGAHF7

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

@MFarmer_Resi @Homeviews_com @Castconsultancy @JoinMyTown

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

@LeoDensian Indeed & an IFRS for recognising data would transform incentives for proper data asset management, but could also cause carnage in reporting due to complexity I guess. @Doug_Laney its been a few years since I read Infonomics- any good resources for new updates/tools/case studies?

[Mark Farmer @MFarmer_Resi]

Headlines of material shortages or certification delays reflect a painful but short term issue for construction. The industry’s biggest long term risk though remains its high labour intensity and the trend of declining human resources not manufactured ones https://t.co/2CGMcqDUxA

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

@LeoDensian Nice! So do you report data as an asset on a shadow balance sheet or anything like that? I guess whilst measuring volume is easy, valuation and amortisation are the tricky bits. Great to see orgs implementing the philosophy though!

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

This is how you can help shape OpenBuilt's future and be at the forefront of this exciting transformation of the built environment.

#lowcodeautomation #lowcodeplatform #engineering #infrastructure #energy #sustainability #construction #builtenvironment

https://t.co/ZFx378g8Sx

[Mark Farmer @MFarmer_Resi]

Time for some large scale positive disruption in the construction world. @IBM #OpenBuilt is an ambitious initiative to bring the global construction industry together by allowing competing and isolated tech solutions to be part of a structured eco-system https://t.co/x61bfbdtLi

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

Today we introduce OpenBuilt to the world. The connectivity platform that will transform the productivity
of the #openbuiltenvironment. The #WingsofTransformation are spreading!

https://t.co/n6GcpWUddu

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

Launch day finally here for https://t.co/GC1SWgGP3p

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

Big week next week. This news is timely...

https://t.co/UQtFreH5aB

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

https://t.co/67N8nmkbYw

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

Love this from @mixcloud - using technology to enable a business model that credits the performers who have helped many of us through this lockdown, mostly for free, and the artists that created the music.

A carrot rather than stick approach to IP that benefits everyone.

[Chris Gage @gagecj]

The future of digital technology, new ideas and progress relies on the interoperability of software. Let's hope the courts don't put the future in jeopardy by allowing this cynical cash grab to succeed. https://t.co/jyqQVh8eyx This is of course my personal opinion