Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 25, 2010
June 18, 2010
July 02, 2010
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling NATE in "Risky Management" NATE NATION Man: Nate, isn't there a PROBLEM with how CORPORATIONS deal with RISK? Nate: Nonsense! Why, I run my FAMILY like a corporation! Son: I raked the leaves, Dad! What should I do with the piles? Nate: Burn them! It's legal here, so it would be irresponsible NOT to. Wife: Nate, the brakes on the S.U.V. need to be fixed. Nate: Are you kidding? Do you know what that would do to our quarterly numbers? Daughter: Dad, I can't do this math homework. Nate: Can't you cheat off that brainy friend of yours? Daughter: But...what if I get caught cheating? Nate: I didn't say you should CHEAT. I just want results! WINK Neighbor: Hey, your leaf smoke is blowing into my house! COUGH COUGH Nate: Well, who could have guessed the wind would shift? Son: Dad, I feel sick. Are you sure this dollar-store bologna is safe? Nate: It's legal! And we hit our cost target! CRASH!! Nate: Awfully sorry things haven't worked out here! I'm off to start another family! Great results this month, though!
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Many thanks, Toby, for the paper by Gary Chartier: interesting & clear, though easier to read once printed out. I like keeping the three capitalisms aside as I read the rest of the paper.
If Pschearer means capitalism-1 when he promotes capitalism, then he has no complaint. American society practices capitalism-1 & can continue to do so even w/in the capitalism-socialism mix that is America. Americans have property rights and a voluntary exchange of goods & services, and, within the bounds of reasonable societal comity & equity, we are unfettered on our property & w/in our exchanges.
Unfortunately, American society also has too much capitalism-2 & -3, particularly after so many years of regressive presidencies & congresses. The virtually unfettered oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is courtesy of Big Oil running the Bush-Dick presidency in an example of cap-3.
As for services the government provides, I am happy to see them done by any responsible organization, but one of the nice things about a government (and I write this as a philosophical anarchist) is that it is—or can be—responsible to ALL. To have our food inspected by community-minded volunteers might work beautifully at some times and lead to serious ptomaine at other times. I have worked with volunteers, and I am a volunteer (& a Volunteer: I live in Tennessee): I would not count on them for my chicken.
I will be first in line to agree that governments do many bad things. Look at how difficult it is for President Obama to clean up the myriad messes of Bush-Dick and how slowly & conservatively Obama moves, also. We must wrest government away from corporate interests & puritanical interests. We will not find that platform, though, in the Libertarian Party, which wants greater cap-3, so that the oil will spread over the seas & the lands.