Same Function, Different Form, Common Links

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flashes, or short circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.
Arthur Koestler

Invisible links. Poppycock. We don’t need no stinking invisible links.

For too long, many have thought market actions were largely mysterious, their forces hidden, and actions unpredictable. When it comes to product demand, that is complete nonsense. Even when collections of products look different but do the same thing, they behave in ways we can predict.

A Invisible links. Poppycock. We don’t need no stinking invisible links.

For too long, many have thought market actions were largely mysterious, their forces hidden, and actions unpredictable. When it comes to product demand, that is complete nonsense. Even when collections of products look different but do the same thing, they behave in ways we can predict.

A Raven UAV doesn’t look anything like a Topaz satellite. Yet, doing the same mission using different altitudes, payloads, and speeds, they are bound by the same Demand Frontier, one that limits the arena’s most highly rewarded performers. If you prove worthy enough to be on the field of play, you often find a certain lower guarantee of recompense, known as Minimum Demand.

Such boundaries are only mysterious if you don’t do Hypernomics. doesn’t look anything like a Topaz satellite. Yet, doing the same mission using different altitudes, payloads, and speeds, they are bound by the same Demand Frontier, one that limits the arena’s most highly rewarded performers. If you prove worthy enough to be on the field of play, you often find a certain lower guarantee of recompense, known as Minimum Demand.

Such boundaries are only mysterious if you don’t do Hypernomics.

Spy satellites, military satellites, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones) all perform the same mission and face identical financial limits. Below is an Upper Demand Frontier that includes models of all three groups. With a slope of -1.38, is steep (inelastic).That means more money is spent on five Topaz Spy Sats (5*$9.4B = $47B) than the 19,000 Raven Drones (19,000 *$25K= $475M).The steeper (-1.96) Minimum Demand Frontier reveals that one Mercury Spy Sat ($2B) fetches more than 19,000 RQ-I4s (I9K*$3K = $57M).