Brad,
How perceptive of you to realize the military cannot be run as a free market.
In the free market the individual citizen decides what he wants to do. In the military, the citizen does what he is told.
Well, yes, I do like being told:
Take what you want. Eat what you take.
I admit to not wanting to be free to be impoverished due to no fault of my own. Etc.
But I'm not going to argue, because I think we are talking past each other.
No person can see another in the darkness.
(--Hermann Broch, _The Slepwalkers_)I am free for so many things I don't want, and I am told what to do, and constrained in so many ways that I'd rather take my own initiative.
And, as previously said, I -- like some others -- seek not freedom of enterprise, but freedom from enterprise. Maybe I'd work harder if I could earn enough to make "my number" (ref. is to Wall Street traders' ultimate career objective: to get enough to get out) before I'd be too old to enjoy it.
Another US$10,000 PA wouldn't help, or even 20. But another 10 *less* would hurt!
\brad mccormick
Obviously, you prefer the second - the highly visible hand.
Harry ---------------------------------------
Brad wrote:
I will never tire of hypothesizing (until proven wrong) that rich families and the social circles of the aristoi (you know, the Wiliam F Buckleyocracy...) -- in the way they treat each other as opposed to the way they treat their upderlings --, are not capitalistic but communistic (or simply gracious, which is, for me, the constructive epitome of communism).
But, back to earth, I will also never tire of repeating a sign my father said was in the mess hall when he was in the Air Corps in WWII (we note that the military is not run as a free market, probably because it's too important to leave to the whims of the invisible fickle finger of fate...).
Take what you want, eat what you take.
This sounds very good to me. It's also the kind of ecology-mindedness that it seems to me is not deprivative.
\brad mccormick
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