Re:Everyone Deserves Great Design
by eropple on Sunday May 18, 2014 @11:02AM
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> What point does it make to have a conversation with people who are basically trying to legally mug you?
What point does it make to have a conversation with people running the machine that systematically impoverishes billions, to enable the lives of a thin crust of tens of millions?
(Not that I'm juvenile enough to believe such an extreme position in either direction--and yours relies on the sort of maker-taker dichotomy that I think I grew out of when I was seventeen and the bloom was off the libertarian rose--but you see how useful this sort of froth is, yeah? Then why do you do it?)
What point does it make to have a conversation with people running the machine that systematically impoverishes billions, to enable the lives of a thin crust of tens of millions?
(Not that I'm juvenile enough to believe such an extreme position in either direction--and yours relies on the sort of maker-taker dichotomy that I think I grew out of when I was seventeen and the bloom was off the libertarian rose--but you see how useful this sort of froth is, yeah? Then why do you do it?)