Re: When even a Republican can see it....

In article <29Wdnc0XpLt0hxHbnZ2dnUVZ8taknZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Dave O'Neill" <daveon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unless the entire global economic system moves so we can afford for
everybody to be a dilletante if they wish to, then we're probably stuck with
it as a feature of the system. I'm all for people being able to do as they
like, I wish I could, but I'm not naive enough to think its practical or
that a change in the system of education in the USA will bring it about.

I'm not arguing for everyone doing whatever he likes. I'm arguing that
there are a variety of different ways of accomplishing goals, using
different inputs. Someone selling out of a stall in bazaar is achieving
the same thing as a clerk in a grocery store, but the nature of the job
is very different. Some patterns require lots of rote action and little
initiative, some the opposite. As the prices at which different sorts of
labor change, so does the mix of ways in which things are done.

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