20130823

plainS-wordrhetoric

..an exercise, I'll just leave this here..

People who work for a living should earn a living.

If a company cannot afford to pay production- and service-layer employees enough to meet their needs for housing, food, medicine, and still enjoy leisure and prosperity, how can that company afford to pay its managers even higher salaries and benefits? How can it afford to pay its executives salaries and bonuses? How can it afford to pay its investors dividends?

If the claim is that managers and executives are much more critical to the company's success than production and service workers, then that is an argument for centralized, top-down command decision-making in an economic structure.

If the claim is that investors' right to growth is more important than workers' right to a living, then that is an argument for the right of a minority (investors) to live in ease off the hard work of a majority (workers).

20130407

useofweapons

Weapons are used, knowingly, to compel a change in states of mind and courses of action.

Too much martial arts class brooding, and a nod to one of science fiction's modern greats.
A Personal Statement From Iain Banks

20130116

zenthesisanarchis

What Arises also Ceases.
Species is a temporary local phenomenon.
Local and temporary, spacetime itself
may be emergent and conditional.
What then are your nations and your laws?
Rejoice that empires fall, but then take no shelter in them.
We must communally build system and structure
to enable our greater liberty,
but not idly let what is built become entrenched and enshrined,
a power over our liberty.
Polis, community, harmonic structure
are continually examined and rebuilt,
and continually examined and torn down.
To Alter or Abolish
 
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