Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
In reply to mlyoung57. The above comment beginning with ‘I pretty much agree…’ is a response to your response to my [1]. For some reason, WordPress is not letting me edit my comments (and ordering/indenting the comments in an unhelpfu…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
I pretty much agree with what you say in [a], but I think the meat of the issue is the interplay between the private values that people have (and the values that predominate in a given firm) and what the relevant kind of labor is worth in the market. T…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
Your last comment: (3) There are important moral/justice issues and costs. A system that treats a person and her labor in this way immediately raises the question of avoiding unfair distributions of benefits and burdens (and also, as you stress in you…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. In your second comment, you say: (2) Labor-remuneration schemes directly based on productive contribution — the very intuitive standard for valuing labor suggested by your post, whether or not you intended it — though often appr…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Wow, some of these lyrics sites just suck. Reading through one for this song, there are at least three errors, including the ‘A1’ error, that affect the meaning of the song quite a bit. Especially with a wordsmith…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Another lyrics site says ‘A-1’ (the name of the sauce is actually ‘A1’). I’m sticking with that! Musically, Shit Shots is just average, if that. I like them better, and I think the music is bette…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. I’m reproducing your comment so that I can see it as I write: (1) You are right that responsiveness to incentives not to work is, if anything, weakly correlated with any morally problematic “lack of work ethic.” And firm m…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. Thanks for those comments. They sort of flush me out to ask where I’m going with all this class warfare rhetoric I’m serving up. So with the proviso that I didn’t directly make the arguments you’re address…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. I don’t know if I agree with that interpretation of the song. I like the lyrics, but the Drive by Truckers aren’t my style, musically speaking. According to the Infallible Gospel of Google, the last line is actually: …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’ve never read Plato’s Hipparchus, so now I will. LikeLike
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