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Month: January 2012

Published by on January 8, 2012

One basic idea is that hard work should be rewarded. Obvious, right? I mean, we’re supposed to be economists here! People respond to incentives, and they are risk averse. A winner-take-all society is not very conducive to hard work; I’m not going to bust my butt for 30 years for a 1% shot at getting into The 1%. But I am going to bust my butt for 30 years if I think this gives me a 90% chance of having a decent house, a family, some security, a reasonably pleasant job, a dog, and a couple of cars in my garage. An ideal middle-class society is one in which everyone, not just anyone, can get ahead via hard work.

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Published by NiteMayr on January 7, 2012

This is not the first time this has happened to me. Here are some other delightful encounters with “fans” (and anyone who thinks this is a new phenomenon brought on by the advent of camera phones needs to read Harlan Ellison’s essay “Xenogenesis”, available in The Essential Ellison which is, as the title says, essential reading):

Not the first time we’ve seen that assholes name on Patton’s Blog…. let’s hope Patton didn’t get contact AssholeDisease from his Holiness ’ I wrote that one good Star Trek Episode’

Published by on January 7, 2012

This is not the first time this has happened to me. Here are some other delightful encounters with “fans” (and anyone who thinks this is a new phenomenon brought on by the advent of camera phones needs to read Harlan Ellison’s essay “Xenogenesis”, available in The Essential Ellison which is, as the title says, essential reading):

Not the first time we’ve seen that assholes name on Patton’s Blog…. let’s hope Patton didn’t get contact AssholeDisease from his Holiness ’ I wrote that one good Star Trek Episode’