@Geezer: I agree with all of what you've just written. But after being financed, he made more money through financing (using his possession of the product of surplus labor to multiply it) - on top of the work he did (I've never thought of him as lazy). Increased the 'force' he could apply. No level playing field.
@Geezer: Again, that's the model of 'Socialism' I dislike (if you want to say that 'Socialism' always MUST mean what you say, then we can call what we want something else).
A problem with your statement, I think, is that (1) what is smarts in one situation is not necessarily smarts in another; and (2) what you say about working harder etc. depends on a level playing field, which we have not got. And concentrated wealth in private hands automatically exerts a 'force'.
I dunno, HFCampo-who-won't-respond-to-this-from-me; but 'normal' only means the general way of things at any particular time & place - what is normal here & now would be abnormal there & then. Perhaps the word you want is 'natural'? But how to know what that might be?
Wonder why the labor law isn't enforced - is there some systematic tendency preventing it? What is it?
@ Geezer: the 'Socialism' that you refer to is the model that I was referring to. And I'm not sure what you mean by 'natural'.
@Haali: OK, but efficiency in doing what? And who decides what the taxes will be spent on - as well as the profits?
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
Posted bySocial cooperation is also hard-wired into the individuals of an innately social species such as ourselves, without which the individuals of our species would not have survived to pass on any genes..Rouseau's 'noble savage' never existed, both he and Hobbes were wrong.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
Posted bySubjective reports of happiness mean something, but I'm not sure what.
Kunming smells part II: The good, the bad and the ugly
Posted byYou get used to it all after awhile, as most of Kunming's 7 million inhabitants surely have.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
Posted by@nnoble: don't follow - who or what is rotting? I can think of various candidates, but I'm not sure which one you're talking about.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
Posted byThere are economic issues concerning education in China for very poor communities, which obviously need a bigger share of the economic pie than they are getting. Yet China's 'socialist market economy' is increasing the overall level of economic resources within China.
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