I want this Shirt in Black
#WritingFromIsolationWard
Month: March 2012
“AshleyMadison.com, the infamous dating site for philanderers, has made an offer to purchase all Limbaugh inventory rejected by fleeing sponsors. SeekingArrangements.com, “the world’s largest sugar daddy and sugar baby dating website,” has also expressed interest in buying ads from Limbaugh.”
–The Daily What
Of course sites dedicated to infidelity and swapping sex for money are clamoring to advertise to Rush’s fans. Rush is all about projection; the phenomena where ones failings are instead ascribed to ones enemies.
“AshleyMadison.com, the infamous dating site for philanderers, has made an offer to purchase all Limbaugh inventory rejected by fleeing sponsors. SeekingArrangements.com, “the world’s largest sugar daddy and sugar baby dating website,” has also expressed interest in buying ads from Limbaugh.”
–The Daily What
Of course sites dedicated to infidelity and swapping sex for money are clamoring to advertise to Rush’s fans. Rush is all about projection; the phenomena where ones failings are instead ascribed to ones enemies.
The belief that corporations should serve anything other than the interests of their shareholders, particularly with respect to the interests of the workers or abstract intellectual principles is something you hear from libertarians all the time. That the employees of Cato themselves thought they were anything other than agents engaged in labor in service to their shareholders does come across as pretty hypocritical.
I know a lot of libertarians, and not one of them has ever suggested that employees of a company should not try to get the best deal for themselves if at odds with their employer over pay/working conditions/whatever.
Libertarianism has a fairly strict social hierarchy which makes the role of an employee quite clear. It’s hypocritical for the Cato employees to think that they were somehow exempt from this relationship. The Koch brothers told them what they expect them to do and how to behave. That they think there should be some other arrangement speaks to a hypocritical belief that these Cato employees are somehow “special” in a way that most other employees are not.
“Corporations are people, my friends.” The libertarian ideal is one in which the Cato Institute has no abstract purpose for its existence other than maximizing the value for its shareholders. Cato’s employees are insisting that instead it should, unlike their belief about every other corporate institution, be leveraged to benefit themselves and some abstract ideological service to “libertarianism.”
The belief that corporations should serve anything other than the interests of their shareholders, particularly with respect to the interests of the workers or abstract intellectual principles is something you hear from libertarians all the time. That the employees of Cato themselves thought they were anything other than agents engaged in labor in service to their shareholders does come across as pretty hypocritical.
I know a lot of libertarians, and not one of them has ever suggested that employees of a company should not try to get the best deal for themselves if at odds with their employer over pay/working conditions/whatever.
Libertarianism has a fairly strict social hierarchy which makes the role of an employee quite clear. It’s hypocritical for the Cato employees to think that they were somehow exempt from this relationship. The Koch brothers told them what they expect them to do and how to behave. That they think there should be some other arrangement speaks to a hypocritical belief that these Cato employees are somehow “special” in a way that most other employees are not.
“Corporations are people, my friends.” The libertarian ideal is one in which the Cato Institute has no abstract purpose for its existence other than maximizing the value for its shareholders. Cato’s employees are insisting that instead it should, unlike their belief about every other corporate institution, be leveraged to benefit themselves and some abstract ideological service to “libertarianism.”
deanc – http://www.metafilter.com/113584/on-the-flexibility-of-ideals#4225708
It just defies belief, doesn’t it? What was TSA guy expecting – the woman cracks under the pressure and admits: “Yes, officer. My left and right nipples lactate sulphuric acid and acetone respectively, it’s a fair cop, take me away!” The USA taxpayer supports the TSA, which demonstrably serves no useful purpose, but howls blue murder at the concept of ObamaCare ™ that might actually serve to improve the quality of life for you guys. Here in Europe a lot of us are going W.T.F.
The taxation situation in the USA is perverse, “How dare you take my money and use it in a way that could benefit others (Limbaugh / Tea Party / etc)” but conversely, “It’s OK to take my money and spend it in a way that makes other people suffer.”
danegeld
It just defies belief, doesn’t it? What was TSA guy expecting – the woman cracks under the pressure and admits: “Yes, officer. My left and right nipples lactate sulphuric acid and acetone respectively, it’s a fair cop, take me away!” The USA taxpayer supports the TSA, which demonstrably serves no useful purpose, but howls blue murder at the concept of ObamaCare ™ that might actually serve to improve the quality of life for you guys. Here in Europe a lot of us are going W.T.F.
The taxation situation in the USA is perverse, “How dare you take my money and use it in a way that could benefit others (Limbaugh / Tea Party / etc)” but conversely, “It’s OK to take my money and spend it in a way that makes other people suffer.”
danegeld