Note that I'm not mentioning banning. What I'm implying is that people should be free to use choice as the deciding factor.
e.g. "I don't have any pressure either way other than I want to more than I don't want to" - rather than the all-to-common "I can't make a living otherwise so I will..."
Until society stops 'accidentally' creating pressures which lead members of a ready-made underclass down certain routes, freedom of opportunity will continue to be the sham that it is today.
You appear to live in the land of "what is, is right" or "popularity indicates correctness", which of course you're free to.
I'm simply stating my opinion.
Not that I do but if you have a, for example, four year old daughter. Take a look at her one day and consider all of which she is capable being swept aside in favour of her simulating a sexual act on stage for geeks, for money. To my mind this seems like a lost opportunity, despite the obvious charitable cause:D
What's wrong is that my preference is to keep driving as something I do to get myself/friends/family from A to B.
If society 'emergently colludes' (*) to offer me a choice of abject poverty or drive a car for a living, that's wrong because it removes my choice to explore all the possibilities of which I am capable.
(*) I'm trying to describe a collective behaviour where it may be fair to say that there are no explicit choices to achieve a particular end by individuals but the appearance and effect is that of a group working together to achieve that end.
It occurs to me that the more basic a skill someone sells; the more able the customers are to perform the task themselves, if they could be bothered; the more this is some form of emergent coercion / abuse by society.
Maybe they didn't mind. The more interesting question (yeah, I know... *yawn* - maybe only to me) is whether they should mind; whether they would have minded if they didn't have some internal rationalization along the lines of "... I can relax my principles / boundaries a little and get paid (substantially?) more than I could doing something else, w00t!".
I'm not a prude by any stretch but believe sexuality is there to be enjoyed not sold. Underlying this is concern about the corrupting influence of power expressed via money; the willingness with which the almost literal underclass performs any bizarre act requested, even implicitly, by their (literal) corporate overlords...
I dunno what's happened to Disney. If the old Disney were around there'd be a cartoon character representing piracy. I guess they need to dig up some of their creative ppl to make that happen?
It's not all patents are evil; just the ones along the lines of "I patent the idea of <doing something in a manner appropriate to a human with arms and legs>"...
It's like trying to choke an anaconda with a huge deer...those jaws are bigger than you'd expect and all you get for your trouble is a curvetoothed snake happily trapping and swallowing away your day's hunt and leaving you with nothing.
Dude? Where are you from that you would choose an anaconda/deer analogy over a car analogy?
I don't get how anyone can claim they have the right to being cured of any sickness they get. Doctors work their asses off to get where they are. How fair is it for those doctors to have to treat bums off the street who haven't contributed anything to society.
That there really hits the nail on the head. That's exactly what's wrong with your 'health'-care system and why those who are happy with it don't realize that it's broken. It's just a little thing known as compassion. The recognition of how it feels to suffer from an illness not of your own causing and the ability of some to free others from this.
In civilized countries, people understand this:D
Once again, I guess it goes without saying.. "hit me with your troll mods"
Forgot to say.. why don't you clean your own damn office you lazy fat fuck*, rather than expect the state to provide an ever-present underclass to do it for you?
I suppose this is a troll. Mod away!
(*) Not necessarily targeting you specifically/only...
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Aren't car analogies supposed to be universally understood? :D
They don't need our help to create the illusion of a problem needing their solution.
A dumb fuck who's smart enough to know he's above the law.
Come back when you learn how to log in then maybe I'll consider your implications to have more weight.
Yah; that's what I'm saying.
Firstly, you have no clue how I sound; this is a textual medium.
Secondly, nice attempt to divert what I'm saying into a game of insults; really; well done.
I can only assume that you're one of the people that profits from keeping things as they are.
You are mistaken.
Note that I'm not mentioning banning. What I'm implying is that people should be free to use choice as the deciding factor.
e.g. "I don't have any pressure either way other than I want to more than I don't want to" - rather than the all-to-common "I can't make a living otherwise so I will..."
Until society stops 'accidentally' creating pressures which lead members of a ready-made underclass down certain routes, freedom of opportunity will continue to be the sham that it is today.
Not so much blinders as shades.
You appear to live in the land of "what is, is right" or "popularity indicates correctness", which of course you're free to.
I'm simply stating my opinion.
Not that I do but if you have a, for example, four year old daughter. Take a look at her one day and consider all of which she is capable being swept aside in favour of her simulating a sexual act on stage for geeks, for money. To my mind this seems like a lost opportunity, despite the obvious charitable cause :D
What's wrong is that my preference is to keep driving as something I do to get myself/friends/family from A to B.
If society 'emergently colludes' (*) to offer me a choice of abject poverty or drive a car for a living, that's wrong because it removes my choice to explore all the possibilities of which I am capable.
(*) I'm trying to describe a collective behaviour where it may be fair to say that there are no explicit choices to achieve a particular end by individuals but the appearance and effect is that of a group working together to achieve that end.
That just doesn't work for me. Some things are not for sale.
Who mentioned shame? I enjoy driving a car but I don't want society to make it disproportionately attractive for me to do it for a living.
It occurs to me that the more basic a skill someone sells; the more able the customers are to perform the task themselves, if they could be bothered; the more this is some form of emergent coercion / abuse by society.
> The guy cooking my food at the local fast food place isn't some horribly oppressed victim of society. He's making a living.
Are they mutually exclusive? Why not trade places and then come back and update your post?
At what, perhaps unrecognized, cost ? What next? selling their organs at yahoo events? :D
Maybe they didn't mind. The more interesting question (yeah, I know... *yawn* - maybe only to me) is whether they should mind; whether they would have minded if they didn't have some internal rationalization along the lines of "... I can relax my principles / boundaries a little and get paid (substantially?) more than I could doing something else, w00t!".
I'm not a prude by any stretch but believe sexuality is there to be enjoyed not sold. Underlying this is concern about the corrupting influence of power expressed via money; the willingness with which the almost literal underclass performs any bizarre act requested, even implicitly, by their (literal) corporate overlords...
Ahh yes, this is the real democracy. A willing underclass, subservient to your every need.
I dunno what's happened to Disney. If the old Disney were around there'd be a cartoon character representing piracy. I guess they need to dig up some of their creative ppl to make that happen?
It's not all patents are evil; just the ones along the lines of "I patent the idea of <doing something in a manner appropriate to a human with arms and legs>"...
It's more profitable to drain the life from your victims slowly.
Dude? Where are you from that you would choose an anaconda/deer analogy over a car analogy?
That there really hits the nail on the head. That's exactly what's wrong with your 'health'-care system and why those who are happy with it don't realize that it's broken. It's just a little thing known as compassion. The recognition of how it feels to suffer from an illness not of your own causing and the ability of some to free others from this.
In civilized countries, people understand this :D
Once again, I guess it goes without saying.. "hit me with your troll mods"
Forgot to say.. why don't you clean your own damn office you lazy fat fuck*, rather than expect the state to provide an ever-present underclass to do it for you?
I suppose this is a troll. Mod away!
(*) Not necessarily targeting you specifically/only...
Surely that's the whole point?
No, I don't agree with it.