[Coco] OT : Rant on Corp Execs (was) Re: Opening and cleaning an FD-501 controller.

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

From: James Hrubik <jimhrubik at earthlink.net>
> When you are paid based on the percentage of sales you close, it is  
> the best incentive in the world to sell the most of whatever it is  
> that an idiot will pay for, with not a care in the world whether it  
> is a benefit to the idiot.  It places the real power in the hands of  
> the people who control advertising and marketing, and they are the  
> Robber Barons.  There is no sense of responsibility in upper  
> management; no "noblesse oblige" in government.  As a culture, we  
> have destroyed aristocracy without retaining the sense that those of  
> lesser rank (read: "they are stupider") need protection.  Much as it  
> may rankle the Libertarians on this list, people left to themselves  
> will sell themselves into slavery.

James, when I'm in a good mood I call myself a libertarian.  (I've never joined the Party, I will never join a Party, even at risk of death).  Most of the time I'm an individualist and an anarchist, since lately those good moods don't show up very often  That management problem happens in the political realm much more than in the business world.

My chosen epitaph is "Missing and Presumed".  I expect it to be "Shot While Resisting".

Some of us are working to fix things, or at least build a refuge.  www.fsp.org, I hope to be moving this year if La Esposa's health improves.

Not all anarchists are moving to New Hampshire.  The creators of the book in my sig are not and all are at least  as anti-government as I am (two of the three are personal friends, I haven't met Rex yet).

The socialists took over Vermont.  We're just trying to provide a contrast next door.  Funny, Vermont has an active secession movement, New Hampshire doesn't yet even though it's in the state Constitution.

To bring some Color Computer connection into this screed, I recommend everybody find a copy of and learn to win "Klendathu".  Then read Robert Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_, the book Bill Barden based the game on.  Yes, there was a movie of the same name with characters with the same names, but the script was based on somebody who didn't like the book describing it to the scriptwriter and the director.  (Who wouldn't probably have liked it either if they knew how to read).  And if anybody knows of the existence of the "school version" of that game, I'd love to read the teachers guide -- to the best of my knowledge that version never passed through any RSCC in southern California and as the CSR in downtown L.A. I had some good connections around the area.  (Most Xenix problems and a lot of weird other stuff came to me and my managers [I outlasted several] permitted it because their bottom lines were greatly improved and other managers owed us bigtime favors most of which were
  not p
assed on to me).

Been a long damned day and I'm tired.  Had a Verizon tech scheduled to show up sometime between 8:00 and 17:00.  He showed up promptly at 16:15.  It was fewkin' cold outside where I was waiting to let him into the basement for eight and some hours.  (I'd have waited inside, but from there you can't see the street and I'm not allowed to smoke).  One more beer and I'm off to bed.  Even anarchists need sleep even when we can't afford armed guards like the mercantilists and other statists.

If anybody has a problem with any of the terminology or implied philosophy in this message, please take it private.  I respect Dennis too much to argue here whatever our political differences.  (No, I'm neither left nor right -- from that axis I'm just a bit non-Euclidean).
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