How To Save the Popular Press
Bret Cahill
be doing better than the fast nickel.
On line tech journals might get $20 - $30 per study and maybe sell a
few dozen or hundred studies, although, quite often the teaser (aka
"the abstract") is often more valuable than the text itself.
The buyer is unlikely to paste the copyrighted material, often from
some obscure field, on the internet.
Now, to be sure, material on political matters that concern all
Americans will get reposted.
The only solution to that is a negative income tax or, better still, a
permanent "rebate" for all citizens.
The federal government pays everyone to be a good citizen and to
comment on economic - political matters.
Milton Friedman was absolutely correct about means testing. Not only
does it violate private, but clearly, if you pay people to be poor,
next thing you know you have a lot of poor people.
Of course, you don't get paid for preaching about JayeEEEesus,
creationism or sexual orientation. That would violate the
Establishment clause.
Just economic issues.
That would vastly improve the quality of the discussion on
alt.politics.
Rightards would be out shopping with their rebate money instead of
posting "if I git pushed too far . . ."
Bret Cahill
"If monied interests pay outspoken GOP market economists to dodge
issues fundamental to markets, next thing you know you have a lot of
outspoken GOP market economists dodging issues fundamental to
markets."
-- Bret Cahill
Jerry Okamura
about all the time?
"Bret Cahill" <BretC...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Rod Speed
> Was Milton Friedman on the right or on the left on these issues we argue about all the time?
It isnt a mindlessly superficial right/left matter.
> Bret Cahill <BretC...@aol.com> wrote
Bret Cahill
> about all the time?
Niether. Friedman was just a fraud. I have scribblings from him on
other matters but Friedman always dodged The Question:
Bret Cahill
> It isnt a mindlessly superficial right/left matter.
It might be more precise to say Friedman was too mindlessly
superficial tio be right or left.
Bret Cahill
> > Bret Cahill <BretCah...@aol.com> wrote
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zzbu...@netscape.net
> It's the fast nickel vs the slow dime and now the slow dime seems to
> be doing better than the fast nickel.
Well, in a science-engineering sense, the popluar press on-line is
equivalent to a job interview with a GM Wholesaler.
So that's why the engineering people mostly work on Gas Turbine
Engines,
Biodiesel, Pv Cell Energy, Electronic Books, Holograms, Distributed
Processing Software,
GPS, Digital Terrain Mapping, Thermo-Electric Cooling, Cyber
Batteries,
Fiber Optics, Blue Ray, HDTV, Home Broadband, On-Line Banking,
Autonomous Vehilces, Self-Replicating Machines, and Self-Assembling
Robots anyway.
zzbu...@netscape.net
wrote:
> On Jul 6, 12:24 pm, Bret Cahill <BretCah...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > It's the fast nickel vs the slow dime and now the slow dime seems to
> > be doing better than the fast nickel.
>
> Well, in a science-engineering sense, the popluar press on-line is
> equivalent to a job interview with a GM Wholesaler.
> So that's why the engineering people mostly work on Gas Turbine
> Engines,
> Biodiesel, Pv Cell Energy, Electronic Books, Holograms, Distributed
> Processing Software,
> GPS, Digital Terrain Mapping, Thermo-Electric Cooling, Cyber
> Batteries,
> Fiber Optics, Blue Ray, HDTV, Home Broadband, On-Line Banking,
> Autonomous Vehilces, Self-Replicating Machines, and Self-Assembling
> Robots anyway.
Or equivalently said as: "Idiots do have a right to work, but they
have a
right to work with The AP and The New York Times rather than in
Post Neanderthal Engineering".