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> It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consult
by objclxt 13y ago
> It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish. (Many suspect it might markedly improve.)
We'd probably lead full, rich and happy lives until we were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.
- singingfish 13y agoThank you. I was waiting for a telephone sanitizer reference.
- zdw 13y agoI think what he's suggesting is inverse of the outcome of HGTTG - that the telephone sanitzers wipe out all the ineffectual upper management people who do no or limited real work. Neither is a plausible solution, although his seems more valid if you would consider decimating the ineffectual upper management class rather than outright removal.
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoBesides, this is a classic game theory example of cooperation vs. competition. Sure, everyone would live rich and happy lives if everyone would cooperate, but that would be for only as long as there are no new lobbyists, etc. Once they appear - they win all the money, and everything goes back to how it is now.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoOk, so how do you create an enforcement mechanism to keep the capitalistic bullshit from coming back once you've gotten rid of it?