begin quoting John Oliver as of Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:37:33PM -0800: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:00:35AM -0800, David Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:04:27PM -0800, SJS wrote: > > > > >Well, if they prepared the food, they'd be a cafeteria. And I've > > >paid the flat-rate for minimally-metered access to a cafeteria. > > >It worked pretty well. If the cafeteria at work offered a flat-rate > > >plan, I might well take advantage of it. > > > > A certain famous search engine company is kind of known for having a > > free-to-employees cafeteria that serves fairly good food. I know that if I > > worked at a place like that it would be very hard to not become quite > > large. > > But that flat-rate cafetria almost certainly is not self-sufficient. > It's almost certainly subsidized by the company that houses it.
It's free-to-employees. Duh. > That's > fine, until we start trying to implement such a scheme everywhere. Who > subsidizes the cafeterias then? The taxpayer. Yup. That's what happens. > We pay the same amount > for our meals (or, actually, more), we just pay part directly and the > rest indirectly via taxes. The "more" is because of the waste caused by > entropy in the system... ...offset by the economies of scale... > the taxes are collected by people who are paid, > and that money is handled and disbursed by more people. All of those > people have supervisors, and they all need shiny office buildings to > work in, which needs electricity and water and maintenance and toilet > paper and more cafeterias. We pay for all of that on top of the amount > we'd pay up front. Um, we have all that already. Your money is taken at the register, who has a supervisor, who has a manager, etc., up the corporate ladder, where the buildings are REALLY shiny, that have maintenance and toilet paper and more cafeterias. It's a wash. > I'd rather pay $10 for my meal than $2 now and another $11 in taxes. How about $10 for your meal or $2 now and $6 in taxes? -- Perhaps economies of scale Can leave you hearty and hale Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
