Re: OT: Atheist joke

On 25 Mar 2006 15:48:38 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:


John Larkin wrote:
On 25 Mar 2006 11:06:09 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:


John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:23:38 GMT, "Rich Grise, but drunk"
<yahright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Coops are of course unnatural, for any number of reasons, which is why
few can compete.

Coops worry the hell out of regular capitalists, who seem to go to some
trouble to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about them.

I don't think so. A co-op is just one of many competitors, domestic
and foreign, and usually not an important one. The co-op members like
to claim they're being oppressed, when in fact they are usually being
ignored, which is even more annoying.



Human being to seem to have evolved to live in co-operative groups of
about 150 people.

Hardly. This is the Margret Mead fantasy [1]. Human society is
universally heirarchial. That tribe of 150 had a boss, and he (almost
always he) had a staff.

One or the other sex would get to move to some other
group on reaching sexual maturity, but that would have been about it as
far as job flexibility went. Co-operative businesses strike me as a
lot less "unnatural" than proprietor-employee companies - though you'd
have a hell of time setting one up and keeping it running in a rapidly
evovling market requiring continuing technical innovation.

I think co-ops are dynamically unstable, which is why so few exist.
But agreed, scones don't require a lot of technical innovation.

John


[1] I met her once. She was a wonderful, friendly, dynamic, and sort
of beautiful old lady. Totally wrong, of course.


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