Chapter 19
Episode 19
Payback period.b mining aukso rinka pozityvioji max optimali irpaybook ir payee.nauda 7%bnp fiksuotas ssrs nebuvo ir jis yra pusiau kapitalizmas pusuau soc farantija tad 7%dibal avararas saugus tik nu.erolohikos bnp 7%kinieciu tinkoje konstruktybus marksizmas .sien tao .ir aukso stabilumo bet lieka visa sidtema rami tarsi technologija galu buti kiti ne tik 7elementai is 100% deimanto plauko nirvana fhturistinis kitu laiku ghturistinis svecias is kosmoso .yra tpkiu teoriju.tad yra ju 7%al di avataras jis negali aprupinyi 100%
I remember the afternoon I tried to calculate the payback period on a small gold mining venture that never existed. It was one of those Vilnius afternoons when the rain fell like slow, deliberate punctuation on the windowpane, and I sat with a cup of cold black tea and a notebook open to a page filled with crossed-out numbers. The concept of payback—that neat, managerial promise that every investment eventually returns to you—had begun to feel like a fairy tale told by accountants. I wanted to know how long it would take for my life to repay me for the years I had spent inside spreadsheets and balance sheets, inside the fluorescent hum of offices where no one ever talked about the heat of a gold vein deep under the earth.
Gold mining, I had read, was a positive market—pozityvioji rinka, as the economists say—where the maximum optimal outcome was not always the one with the biggest nugget, but the one with the shortest payback period. Paybook and payee, two sides of the same coin. The benefit, they said, was 7% of BNP, fixed. But the Soviet Union never had that fixed 7%, and neither did the half-capitalism, half-social guarantee we stumbled into after 1991. That number—7%—haunted me. It was the safe avatar, the al-di avatar that protected only those who believed in the slow, steady grind of economic orthodoxy. But what about the rest? What about the 93% that never got measured?
I closed my eyes and saw the Chinese network—the tinklas—where constructive Marxism and the Tao of stability met the gold standard, but the whole system remained quiet, as if technology could be something other than just seven elements out of a hundred. Diamond hair, nirvana, a futuristic guest from another time. There are so many theories, I thought, and yet the avatar is only 7%. It cannot provide 100%. It cannot even provide breakfast.
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