[quote name='bmulligan']There's simply no incentive to make a PS3 without capitalism - period. There's no incentive to make anything, for that matter, so the only things that DO get made will be those that are for the public good. Determined, of course, by the party plan and it's administrators. And before you get all huffy and start crying to your momma that I'm going all extreme on your socialism and shit, realize that every statement you make about capitalism is even more reactionary than my extrapolated slippery slope.[/quote]
This is sheer blithering idiocy. You're on the internet, the greatest bastion of financial-incentive-free creativity, and you're arguing that if it weren't for financial incentives, nothing would be created?
You believe the sky is green. Pardon me for a moment, I'm going to go download some open source software, read some blogs, browse craigslist for freebies and google for Scott Baio slashfic. I'll be back in a bit once I find these items clearly created with financial incentives.
You want to talk about externalaties? Let's talk about IN-ternalities and unmeasured wealth of capitalism that everyone gets to enjoy. The intrinsically unmeasurable value that lines our shelves and provides us with the availability of goods and services - even if you're poor. Chicken that's 99 cents a pound. 15 brands of toilety paper to choose from. 12 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity. Gasoline on every other street corner with Stop & Shops in between. Drinkable water from every tap, sans cholera. There is no waiting, no rationing, no starvation, no mass strife here compared to the rest of the world. Even the poorest of poor in America lives like a king compared to a majority of the planet - externalities and all
He hits me now and then, but it's because I deserve it. Otherwise, he treats me real good. I'd never leave him.
And Myke:
Democracy != our form of government
You got a hard on for me, darlin, if you want to keep picking on iotas of comments instead of responding writ large. Comments that are absent the context of someone else's comments that help make sense of my word choice. But, hey, the first comments didn't come from you this time, so perhaps that means you're improving.
By the by, I'll be in Detroit tomorrow if you wanna buy me a drink. You've got enough of a
in' crush on me anyway, why deny fate?