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| re: what is it |
| [8996] by "Proxy Thing" (proxy3a.lmco.com) on Thu 31 Jan 2002 16:56:12 [ reply ] |
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Allow me to abstractify your ideas. Abstraction allows us to find the best ideas, and brush all of the ugly, depressing, non patriotic concrete ideas under the metaphorical carpet of assumption!
And who's argument couldn't use a little bit of patriot power now and then? No statement is too broad for the Proxy Thing to make even more broad and sweeping! Proxy input (port 8080): This is the one thing driving first-world economics: Our willingness to accept extremely poor quality service (monotonically decreasing!). Proxy Warning: by driving first-world economics, do you mean driving first-world to be different from non-first-world, or that western economics (and the dreams of proxy things like myself!) would stop if we lost this willingess?! I am deploying willingess enforcers to Alpha point 11, just in case of the latter! Proxy Output: Here are the two things driving our willingess to accept extremely poor quality service: A. Increased mobility of society. What's the point of befriending the supplier if either you or he/she will not be there in a month? While magic green paper (or whatever color it happens to be in the reader's sector of the first world) can be taken with you wherever you go, social capital is attached to your present society. Change societies, and you lose it all. B. Preference for the Explicit over the Implicit. ProductCorp can list the price and basic features of its products. If this information is false, ProductCorp pays a legal price. SuperQuality World of Love Incorporated can't indicate in a legally enforceable way how much higher in quality or love (if it all) they are than ProductCorp. If it can't be measured and verified, the Western consumer knows controlling legal authorities aren't protecting it's integrity. |