MooseFET wrote: > On May 4, 8:19 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> MooseFET wrote: >>> On May 4, 12:32 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> [....] >>>> The Marxist contribution to western thought is that it put everything in >>>> terms of labor and thus allowed us to quantify the human component of >>>> economies. >>> No the great insight by Marx was in the selling of ducks. "Anybody >>> want to buy a duct" has done more to advance economic thinking than >>> the works of most economists. >>> Economists have a vested interest in preventing people from >>> understanding economics. They are well paid and know that they >>> wouldn't be for long if people really understood what was going on. >> You must be an economist because you provide absolutely no >> interpretation of what the hell you were saying in ghe first paragraph >> (as if you actually know what you were trying to say). Duct or duck, >> first of all. Second of all--make a point. > > Groucho Marx. > >
You could have convinced me that Karl Marx was in the duck business because I wouldn't think anyone on any of these lists would be banal enough to use such a well worn joke. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
