Why Fig trees make bad products.

And the price is just right!

That’s like the most awesome foodstuff product in the market today isn’t it? On each and every metric this product outperforms any way of looking at the efficient use of the means of production all the way through to consumption by the customers.

Literally the ultimate brand! Fig , the overlord of economic efficiency! But no.. It’s considered a bad product actually.

But let’s break it down shall we.

Here’s my fig tree and it’s products and services.

I have this snugly reading corner with a handcrafted wooden integrated bench in the corner of a 1,5M thick wall of big boulders.

Outside of it's window is a massive Fig tree , rooted 2 floors down.

In winter it's branches are completely bare and they provide a clear view, and clear sunlight exposure to the window in winter.

And in summer it's fantastic airconditioning. That side of my house is always shaded, but in a very nice way to look at too. And it smells really good.

the hotter and the more humid it gets , the more it's effects kick in , so it's auto-regulating. It's like my personal AI driven house comfort assistant bot.

As a secondary function it also grows food for people. And it's monstrously efficient at it. Over the course of several months it will gradually ripen just a small amount of all the fruit it's been preparing that spring.

On a really great day , I get to pick one right from my lazy ass without getting up… having to let the live juice flow drip from it’s stem outside fir a few seconds first or this whole place is going to get sticky. When eaten right off the tree these things literaly burst from being over-juiced you know? Literal juic explosiong in a satisfyingly crunchy , sweet and creamy delivery all at the same time.

I mean , this thing, right off the tree is like a hybrid Ice-cream, Souffle, dark chocolate infused, ballistic cruise missile of culinary and esoteric delight that comes conveniently pre-packaged for transport.

Every day you can walk under it for 1 minute and pick about 10 of them easily , without much reaching. Take a stepladder with you and you got yourself another 20.

Climb up some branches, for which it sometimes seem it's branch structure is totally made for. These are like the easiest and funnest kinds of trees to climb really.

And you've got yourself another 30.

So it's tertiary function is that it's also an entire Gym actually. They’re like elastic bouncy castles of weight lifting and calmly stretching at the same time… And most of the times you’re standing there like riding a surfboard on it’s waves.

And I'm going to use this tree as an example of how the end results of many things we're expecting to improve things... are actually causing the things they're trying to fix.

Isn't it obvious that the ideal "business model" of the Fig tree , is to be wildly distributed but never densified? Have a fig tree or two for every 30 or so houses and the entire fig market is booming at it's most incredibly efficient delivery model that could ever be imagined. Perfect synthesis on multiple markets, Supply/demand balanced , ecologically sustainably and net positive healing even. The thought that this "doesn't solve everything everywhere" is not a logical response to not consider it ideal for the places where it WOULD be easy and incredibly positive in all these ways. My house lives in one of those places and I can show you it works really well.

These figs , and this airconditioning, Gym and just allround beautiful badass is just economically optimizing the **** out of this economy thing , and anything that anyone else promises would be "more efficient" , or "better" , or "more" for the fig tree's products and services... Is obviously simply wrong.

Right?