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|  Message 90,824 of 91,990  |
|  Intelligent Party to Intelligent Party  |
|  Re: Selling Contagious Poison, As Food A  |
|  29 Jun 21 08:26:55  |
 XPost: sac.politics, ca.general, alt.california XPost: ca.politics, ny.politics From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com On 6/26/2021 12:23 PM, Intelligent Party wrote: > Selling Contagious Poison, As Food And Recreation, Is My Big Question To America > > Consumers are not even warned? > > Employees are not even informed the job is to get COVID? > > Waiters don't produce equity. After the service is over there is nothing to show > for it. > > Rather than "Non-Essential Services," "Commercial Entertainment Services" should > be eliminated. > > People TOIL for others entertainment, and amusement? Work is CREATED this way? > > We let people take this big risk for entertainment which doesn't create any equity? > > At least people in a movie, create a movie we have for 100 years. > > "Commercial Entertainment Services:" I am talking about Broadway, Circuses, Vegas > Shows, The Opera, Waiters, and Whores. > > If there is a substitute product, such as take-out for dine-in, then total > prohibition may be alright. We should endeavor to not create an illegal market, > but whores don't produce anything. Sex and property are the mountain between us. > So the lack of a substitute product seems to go to just whores, and I'm not saying > we should or shouldn't have them, but I don't agree with punishment. > > Health Clubs are not even close to the same basket as "Commercial Entertainment > Services." > > Then there's haircuts, pedicures, and gardeners. The work they provide doesn't > last for long. > > I think I may never hire another waiter in my life. That's not the sort of job I > like to provide. I understand the Restaurant industry is huge. It is also > apparently a huge waste. Do you want to finance more kitchens for quality > take-out, or more Restaurants? We can only spend so much, and we don't have > property at the bottom. Waiters, rather, should be producing equity, or going to > school for free. Waiters could be allowed to spend the same without working, and > it wouldn't do anything at all to the economy, people would just not 'enjoy' waiters. > > The governments would pull poisonous lettuce off the shelves, but there would be > other lettuce for sale. They pulled Tryptophan, which killed several people, off > the shelves for ten years, without a substitute product; do you think that was > wrong? COVID is not just poisonous food for sale at Restaurants; COVID is > contagious poisonous food for sale at restaurants. The government prohibits > poisonous drugs to be sold as recreational party-fun. COVID is not just poison > sold as recreational party-fun; COVID is contagious poison sold as recreational > party-fun. > > Selling contagious poison, as food and recreation, is my big question to America. > And taking such a big health risk, for entertainment, which doesn't produce any > equity. But actually my question is why have such "Commercial Entertainment > Services" work, allowed in the first place. That's what we want to trade? So the > waiter can go out to eat, if there ever is a post-COVID? It's not going to make > us rich. Instead he could produce, and buy, a nicer dinning room table. Rather > than endless toil. > (And porn-stars, unlike whores, yet like a table producer, and like a movie star, > produce a product. Still, the general principle of employment law, is the work > ought not be unnecessarily dangerous, unnecessarily unsanitary, unnecessarily > injurious, nor unnecessarily painful. So, as to professional sports, they only > sort of produce a product. I doubt they'll start playing flag football in place > of NFL, or get rid of boxing anytime soon, but the purpose of Ultimate Fighting > was supposedly to figure out which martial art works best; and have they figured > that out?, and do we really need Ultimate Fighting? They can keep the > bull-fighting in Mexico, or else we'll have dog fighting and cock fighting and > other such stuff soon here. (Animal cruelty, is not a legal persuasion.) And yet > these Sports barely produce a product, too; like you watch reruns of the NFL or > Olympics much. If you want to play High School for free, or intramural, that's > another matter. But the two issues are: employed to commit self-harm; and, > working for other's amusement producing no equity.) > > Making salaries more equitable, could be another way to address the matter. Based > on the above, you couldn't ever have a servant for a Birthday party, nor a > Wedding. Yet still, do you need one? But having to pay more equitably, that is > every person more equal consumption, for an hour worked; could mean not > frivolously employing a waiter, vs. not paying an NFL star to risk his life. While > we all need to hold equity and savings, we could all consume the same, but some > person owns the Empire State Building. > But even with slave labor, Waiters don't build the economy, and a lot of what is > going on right now *is* about building the economy. At least slaves would build > real equity. Waiters will not. So while one way of solving the problem could be > paying more equal consumption per hour worked, thus we would not frivolously > employ, nor compel risk taking, for pay, nor high pay, we do need, at the same > time, to hold capital savings in private hands. > > All the above said; working to commit the self harm of risking COVID, and building > no equity, while doing so, both at the same time, is really the big issue here. > There's no argument in my mind that it's ludicrous. Even so, people need jobs, > but it would be/should be, COVID that put them out of a job, but I guess people > merely take risks for money, which is serious, when they have no other option. > > It's more the fruits of our Capital, that produces, than our labor. Maybe > ex-waiters, and the like, should just have free cash to spend, to a degree. With > still more incentive than that, to earn, as we need to finance Capital and > Intellectual Capital - School, to make the Country yet wealthier.... Perhaps money > if you're trying to get to School, or are going to school. The Macro-Economy is > at stake here. > > A movie theater can be run by a few people, serving hundreds. And let's not > confuse Commercial Entertainment *Services*, with Commercial Entertainment > *Capital*. We do want Big Screen T.V.'s right? For if we went to prohibiting [continued in next message] --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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