Filed Under (Economics) by Don C on 28-10-2007
You know what they say about a fool and his money.
Every successful society has devised ways of separating incompetent or systematically unlucky people from the control of valuable resources.
I certainly don’t wholly disagree with the guy, but Baden sure is a cold-hearted bastard:
I join other tender hearts and empathize with their individual plight.
Despite our sympathy for individuals, and in the spirit of tough love for them and for the nation, we should cherish, though not celebrate, these failures at the national level. Here’s why failure is important.
Basically because people must be punished for their folly, according to John Baden.
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you have to register to leave comments at TCS and I haven’t changed my policy yet on registering to read the paper in the morning. So I’ll further opine here.
The main problem I can see is that our very successful society is very good at separating the systematically unlucky from their resources. The fault lies in to whom the resources are given once separated.
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Filed Under (Tech) by Don C on 28-10-2007
The Apple iPhone could be ten times better than it actually is and I wouldn’t have one just because I don’t like the way Apple operates.
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Filed Under (etcetera) by Don C on 28-10-2007
If I had a few million dollars laying around here’s one of the things I’d do:
I would set up a news bureau in Washington, DC and New York City, New York and let citizen journalists come serve as bureau reporters for a week or two at a time up to a month even. However long they can afford to take off from their job to play reporter. It would be like a vacation.
The citizen journalists would have to be qualified to some degree but not as a reporter. Just as a writer who can ask questions and report in an interesting way what they found out. Press credentials would be provided for access to all kinds of venues– political, entertainment, health and science, etc., whatever interests the reporter. Stories filed with the bureau would be put on the wire and published on the web. All proceeds go back into providing a better bureau.
I’d imagine blogger-types would be the biggest target market for such a “vacation.” I would pay for the whole operation as a philanthropist, but it could probably make a ton of money.
If anybody with a few million dollars laying around (Trump, are you still reading my blog?) reads this and thinks it’s a good idea, I know the perfect guy to run the operation.
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