[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Lesley]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:49:56PM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 18:41 +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 9 Sep 2009, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 16:03 +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> > >>Thus a return to the jolly Victorian practice of allowing people to
> > >>starve to death if they have no work. Brilliant!
> > >Yes.  Just like every other SUCCESSFUL country in the world.
> > 
> > Fortunately this is not even remotely true. If it was, the choice
> > between SUCCESS and not having people starving in the streets would
> > hardly be the no-brainer you seem to think it is; you'd have to be
> > some kind of monster to be willing to buy prosperity for yourself with
> > other people's lives.
> 
> The "starving in the streets" are a product of a fundamentally indolent,
> stupid society.  
> 
> I'll give you a clue:  communism was tried and has entirely failed.
> Socialism has been tried and has entirely failed.  Each presupposes a
> fundamental lack of greed and a basic generosity of spirit.  Hah!  What
> nonsense!
> 
and capitalism has been tried time and time again ... and failed too.
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Regards
L.
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