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laissez-faire

laissez-faire

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I've been spending the last 8 weeks of my life writing a dissertation on social economics. It's due in on Monday.

All the economics theories about incentives, being motivated by payoffs, risk-preferences, signalling etc. Turns everyone into a machine.

I just got my chinese takeaway and sat down in front the TV, Channel 4. A baby born in an ambulance and the joy on everyone's faces. An RAF Sea King pulling people alive off a mountain and the gratitude of the climbers, and the selfless act of a taxi driver saving a random woman who's car had gone in the ice. I had to turn the TV off at that moment because I got rather emotional. but really - that's the stuff that makes the world go around. Not this economics bs.
 
laissez-faire said:
I've been spending the last 8 weeks of my life writing a dissertation on social economics. It's due in on Monday.

All the economics theories about incentives, being motivated by payoffs, risk-preferences, signalling etc. Turns everyone into a machine.

I just got my chinese takeaway and sat down in front the TV, Channel 4. A baby born in an ambulance and the joy on everyone's faces. An RAF Sea King pulling people alive off a mountain and the gratitude of the climbers, and the selfless act of a taxi driver saving a random woman who's car had gone in the ice. I had to turn the TV off at that moment because I got rather emotional. but really - that's the stuff that makes the world go around. Not this economics bs.
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I was saying to an ex Navy friend of mine just recently that as a mathmatician I think the capatalist model is kinda defunct in the way that the equation it is supposed to be an 'answer' to is the need to supply the demands of the population, supply everything you can, demand everything you can just doesn't work :eek:
 
Someone has to fund the ambulance.
Someone has to collect the taxes to pay for the RAF sea king.
I don't believe rescuing people is part of the jobspec for a cabbie, that could have been anyone.

I'll think you'll find that the first two are only possible as a RESULT of this economics BS - and the last one is a result of luck/chance.

Feel any better?
 
mjt said:
lay off the drugs. or even better, send them to me!
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Funny story, in an effort to enhance my performance and stay up working longer, I bought some Beanz. http://www.herbalhighs.com/Item/Beanz.aspx

This was last week. I ended up having a seizure and not being able to work 3 days. I should have taken a hint really from how dodgy that site looks. The things is that they are actually legal...... which is insane because they are lethal.

Before I totally flipped out, I sent a warning to my friend who had also decided to try Beanz. It makes interesting reading:
Sam ********** wrote
22 February at 18:44
Okay I need to reiterate, don't take 2. Just taking one I did a hell of a lot of work, 4 hours of non stop work. Was great.

HOWEVER on two I think this must be what drug users would call 'a trip'. I feel like I'm on some kind of magic carpet but I'm not sure where it's taking me. I had never considered the meaning of the word trip before, but it just like a trip. Because there's like the word 'trip' that is like a journey like the kind of trip you'd take on a sailing boat. I love sailing. Really love it, sailing is my happy place. I guess it helps that on a lot of the sailing 'trips' (remember that's different to a drug trip) there was often a beautiful girl down below and the feeling, well, is she really in love with me or is she in love with the boat? I can never be sure but the fact is a lot of girls do love the whole Sam+Boat combination. That's a GOOD combination. A bad combination is taking Beanz+Beanz. It's a really nice feeling but trying to work is just not going to happen. Apart from the fact I kind of actually really really feel like I love my dissertation now. I love a lot of things right now, including I've just decided I'd love some marmite soldiers.

That's what I was trying to get at with the subject field. The subject field is a tricky one, I think my aim was just capture the whole emotion of what is happening right now. And let's be sure to get this classified, this is emotional. I never thought I could be this emotional, I'm not normally an emotional person. Right now I just feel like I love everyone.

So yeah, dissociation, now that I'm tripping on two of those things, a whopping 360mg, it's made things really really clear. There is a hatred for the deadline (that's 2nd of march in case you were unsure), this big scary thing that looms as if it's put there just to make us afraid. Not sure what we'd be afraid of.

So wait, oh yes, dissociated. That's the meaning of this whole thing. I've decided that I LOVE my topic. But it's like having to write a dissertation on it has eroded the love, or at least it had eroded the love until I took the Beanz to excess. Now - Taking two has helped me realise that I can love the dissertation without being worried about the deadline. Because actually the whole point of the dissertation is that it's meant to be kind of like a journey. The person who reads it at the end of the day should really FEEL the emotion that has gone into it. And there's a danger of writing a dissertation without emotion. I think that LOVE in an element that must be missing from so many boring dissertations. You know?

There - well - I hope my feelings can help you make the right choice. And the right choice is DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN ONE.
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Ross ******* wrote
22 February at 20:03
wow
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Mr^B said:
Someone has to fund the ambulance.
Someone has to collect the taxes to pay for the RAF sea king.
I don't believe rescuing people is part of the jobspec for a cabbie, that could have been anyone.

I'll think you'll find that the first two are only possible as a RESULT of this economics BS - and the last one is a result of luck/chance.

Feel any better?
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No money works in star trek, why not in real life?
 
laissez-faire

Congratulations, you have crossed the barrier, broken through the fence if you will, between being a slave to being truly alive and a human being. We are being lied to and more and more people are waking up every day. Embrace it and encourage others to break free.

:)
 
AJUK said:
laissez-faire

Congratulations, you have crossed the barrier, broken through the fence if you will, between being a slave to being truly alive and a human being. We are being lied to and more and more people are waking up every day. Embrace it and encourage others to break free.

:)
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:/

It really isn't some conspiracy. Everyone knows that corporations and politicians are trying to screw you over. Its clear as day, its not some hidden motive that they have.
 
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