[lit-ideas] Re: There's no such thing as a free cremation
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:29:04 -0600
DMcE:
Milton Friedman is dead already.
And Milton Friedman is still dead. As is Franco.
The thing about free marketeers is that they always seem to be well heeled
and positioned at the high end of the market place. I guess if I were in
that situation, I'd be a free marketeer too . But "pay the people who keep
you alive!" has always been my motto, whereas Friedman has always championed
the "pay whatever the market will let you get away with" scheme of things.
Labor is the profit margin in every enterprise. Economics may well be more
complex than my brain is capable of comprehending, but it's never made much
sense to me to pay a bunch of fat assed, privileged, plutocratic, do-nothing
motherfuckers -- the economic elite, that is, -- more than you pay the guy
who sweeps up the factory floor. "Factory," you say, " what's a factory?"
Ah, those were the golden years of America, but I have neither time nor
space here to deal with that. I was first impressed with the unimportance
of management when I was working in restaurants and the absence due to
illness or jail or whatever of a manager had no effect on the operation of
the restaurant, but if a dishwasher didn't show up for work there was
pandemonium, sheer great panic. a wringing of hands. Friedman should have
been there.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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