[extropy-chat] Re: extropy-chat Digest, Vol 26, Issue 30

[Jack Parkinson]

> From: "John K Clark" <jonkc at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in
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> Jack Parkinson <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com>
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>> There are also definitions of efficiency which are not economic.
>
> And are therefore subjective, and of course these subjective definitions 
> and
> decisions will be made for all of us by a fellow by the name of Jack
> Parkinson.
>
>>You  continue to make the assumption that what is good and profitable - 
>>and
>>therefore efficient - for big business is also good, profitable and
>>efficient for the whole country. THIS is assumption I am challenging
>
> People in slums have poor housing so just blow up the slums, problem 
> solved.
> If someone has diarrhea just sew his rectum shut, problem solved. People 
> in
> third world sweat shops don't make much money so just shut them down,
> problem solved.
>
> Mr. Parkinson I do not find your words "challenging" at all. You may think
> of yourself as a rebel, as a radical freethinker, but your very very
> conventional words can be found in any bar or high school cafeteria in
> America where an economic illiterate is spouting off about the evils of 
> big
> business. I expect more from somebody on the very libertarian and
> economically sophisticated Extropian List.
> >    John K Clark
>
> I think of myself as pretty ordinary, reasonable - and definitely moderate 
> John. I do also still think that your blind acceptance of the corporate 
> line is naive and gullible but so be it, I have made all the points I 
> wished to make on this matter (for now).
We can agree to disagree! Pax :-)
Jack Parkinson