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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

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