Thanks Brad for both posts. I understand you very well. One thing that is said of singers is that they should "know the result before they act". That is because if you piss away your attack or your tone through poor preparation, the critics will piss you away. If these fools had critics with that kind of power they would all think twice before uttering such irresponsibilities. If they had a labor glut to equal the artists labor glut they would move someplace else or give up. The fact is they don't have a prayer of knowing what to do to create a symmetry between the various needs of the society. Anything that doesn't fit on their couch they just cut off.
REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We have "solved" the production problem but can't seem to deal with the > > issue of distribution. > [snip] > > Might that be because, in lowering prices (solving the production problem...) > we lowered wages to so that the workers can't afford to buy what > they make? Didn't Ford pay workers $5 a day back in the 30s, in > part, so that they could afford to buy Fords? > > The law of unintended consequences says that things will > go awry in ways we cannot expect (and most > certainly do not desire!) except in the economy > where he invisible hand sees to it that all > unintended consequences are optimal, and that > the only way to mess things up is to try to foresee > and them and act to prevent the parts we don't want > to happen. > > The way I lok at it, it's kind of like a problem > in geometry: You can start here or you can start there, > and for each starting point different things > will be "easy" but no matter where you start > eventually you hit a wall. The free market and > the managed economy each finds some things > easy and eventually the road starts going uphill > for all.... (Of course, some alternatives do seem > more generally unlikely to succeed, e.g., > if you start your trek by shooting yourself in the foot > even though absolutely no one and no thing even > suggested you do so.) In other words, there are > no good alternatives but there most definitely > are worser ones. > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
