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steven787 on 29 October 2008

I hate you... ;)

"What improves the cirstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole.. No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

"By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but what ever the customs of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-laborer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into, without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England."

"But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. "

"This at least would be the case in a society where things were left to follow their natural course, where there was perfect liberty, and where every man was perfectly free both to choose what occupation he thought proper, and to change it as often as he thought proper. Every man's interest would prompt him to seek the advantageous, and to shun the disadvantageous employment."

Comrade Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations.



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

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akuma587 on 29 October 2008

If only Republicans would actually read the Wealth of Nations...and treat it like more than just a ritualized masturbation to capitalism.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

steven787 on 29 October 2008

How come after every one of "those" posts, I never get a response?



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

The Ghost of RubangB on 29 October 2008

Black people are grasshoppers now, because they can jump higher and they're lazy and don't work???

And what was up with the part that compared the civil rights movement to socialism? I seriously didn't get it.



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akuma587 on 29 October 2008
steven787 said:
How come after every one of "those" posts, I never get a response?

Because most people have an "idea" of what there ideas are, but then when you present them with evidence of what that idea actually stands for based on its historical formation and its actual definition, they will ignore you because it disagrees with their "idea" about what their ideas are.

Technically, giving corporations any help at all, whether it be giving them money or unreasonably favorable legislation, is starkly anti-capitalistic, because it interferes with the free market.  But you wouldn't hear a proponent of "capitalism" say that.  Their idea of capitalism is that business comes first, even if it creates artificial and unnatural balances in the market.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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The Ghost of RubangB on 29 October 2008

I read that post steven, but I didn't see how typing "oh snap" would help add to the conversation.



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Kasz216 on 29 October 2008

What kind of cheap bastard ony tips 10%?



Kasz216 on 29 October 2008
Dogs Rule said:
"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus: All year long, the grasshopper kept buying acorns for the winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came and the grasshopper died and the octopus ate all his acorns! And also he got a race car! Is any of this getting through to you Leala?"

BTW, your story conceils negative stereotypes.

First thing I thought of too.

 



akuma587 on 29 October 2008
Kasz216 said:
What kind of cheap bastard ony tips 10%?

That guy.  I regularly tip at least 30%, sometimes as much as 100%.  After working as a pizza delivery guy, I am a damn good tipper.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Copycon on 29 October 2008

I never tip, I expect the guy/girl to have a salary, if he/she does not, it is not my problem. I can save that money in the bank and let it work as venture capital, working as a base for new small businesses that in time will prosper and will after a while be in a need to employ people. That gives people more freedom to choose!

 

Edit: By the way, people working in diners are poor and stupid, so not giving tip actually just gives them an incitement to educate themselves and get a real job.



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