That is a crazy idea, not because it's unique but because we already did that and "the definition of crazy is doing the same thing again and expecting a differe

That is a crazy idea, not because it's unique but because we already did that and "the definition of crazy is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result" (clearly idempotence was something the universe protected during this era of pithy saying making). And as usual HN has the teenage angst responses of "THEY don't want to give up THEIR power" and shit like that. Christ. Anyway, the dockworkers were already paid off in 1977 because containerization obviated most of their jobs. So the deal we gave them was "You get paid whether you work or not". The problem with paying people when they don't work is that they can then work and use their extra money to extort you even more. Which is exactly what they did this last year. That's right, half of the striking guys weren't guys who'd be working if there wasn't a strike. If you want to create various mobs that eat you alive while a bunch of useful idiots parrot some platitudes about unions, you should pay the unions even more money for less work. Kipling wrote a poem here that is illustrative for all these guys who think they have "one crazy idea that solves everything" that is always this same old idea. I shall give you two lines to meditate on: > once you have paid him the Danegeld > You never get rid of the Dane