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Post by richardw on May 5, 2006 7:36:34 GMT -5
BTW, we (collectively Londonders) are bankrolling your roads and Hospitals etc, so please pipe down about your nuttier arguments about state funding etc. Err have you ever been on a road in say Sheffield? Not much bank rolling going on there. Personally I don't want hospitals provided by the taxpayer. Private insurance would do a bigger and better job. The country has natural resources and its location provide it with an asset - I gave your an example - our timezone - that we 'sell' to businesses that want to work here, the cost is in part labour law. In that respect its a simple trade , businesses want to buy the right to use UK as a base we sell them that asset - at a price. Simple when you think about it - something is sold, something is bought. A product doesn't have to be a produced out of a dirty dark satanic mill, in some northern sh-thole to be a tradeable asset. "The country"? The country is a lump of geography. Who has the right to demand payment for simply being here and creating a business? The State? How? By force of arms. You really are advocating slavery. The country is not a product on its own. It needs action by business people to make it of any value. You can add in your labour laws as part of the cost of daring to be here, but bear in mind the more expensive you make it the more likely you are to lose your market to something less expensive. This timezone you cite as a natural resource is nothing at all until you have business people creating the infrastructure to use it. What a cheek to let others create something of value and then say "Hey you're on my turf! Pay me!" richard
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Post by richardw on May 5, 2006 7:39:55 GMT -5
Enemies? I suppose the frustration of not being able to shout folk down on the Internet must get to those who are or were used to doing so at school or the workplace. It doesn't work anymore and home truths can sting so maybe you are right about enemies. I enjoy offering some balance to these arguments and have no need to shout anyone down. Frankly, I don't care about enemies. My critics on this thread are pretty much a collection of socialists, so to me they may as well not exist. Socialists are simply thieves who "rationalise" their crimes by spouting about society and helping the poor and needy, when really they are motivated by idleness, greed and envy. They always seem to be very good at getting rid of other people's money... and they always want more of it. In the long term the needy are better off not being made reliant on benefits but instead being treated as normal people for whom business has to be creative to include them in trade. richard Dear, dear me. I think it's time to draw a veil over this thread. RichardW has become the Falstaff of the Forum. It is clear that he truly believes this " "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Bye Bye - Poor, lonely, beleaguered yet true genius of, erm, Derbyshire. Me - standing in the corner, facing the wall, wearing my long pointed hat with a big D on it. My dear Cothi, you make it sound as if the whole world is against me! C'mon there is only a small handful of you in this thread. I may love solitude but I'm many leagues from being lonely. ;D richard
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Post by Cothi on May 5, 2006 13:07:11 GMT -5
My dear Cothi, you make it sound as if the whole world is against me! C'mon there is only a small handful of you in this thread. I may love solitude but I'm many leagues from being lonely. ;D richard My dear Falstaff, I am glad to hear that. However you will have done yourself no favours by the sub-intellectual tripe about laboratory capitalism that you have been spouting in this thread. Keep arguing in the way you have been on socio-economic issues and you will certainly end up very lonely indeed. Even Prahalad would disown you.
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Post by richardw on May 9, 2006 4:57:46 GMT -5
Yes and one day Atlas will shrug. Then what will you do for a living?
richard
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Post by Cothi on May 9, 2006 6:26:37 GMT -5
Yes and one day Atlas will shrug. Then what will you do for a living? richard What? Barking, absolutely barking...............
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Post by richardw on May 9, 2006 6:40:54 GMT -5
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Post by Cothi on May 9, 2006 7:06:16 GMT -5
That book is like you RichardW - a relic from a more naive, simple time.
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Post by richardw on May 9, 2006 7:13:43 GMT -5
Read it and then judge it.
richard
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Post by Cothi on May 9, 2006 7:53:29 GMT -5
Read it and then judge it. richard Fair enough, I will give it a go again. Started it back in early 1960s but put it down as I thought it was too naive even then. Perhaps now that I'm, erm, older and wiser I will warm to objectivism!
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