[consulting] Unionizing Drupal

[John List]

Wonderful quote! Thanks!

On 08/06/2010 07:53 PM, Antonio P. P. Almeida wrote:
> To the folks thinking about unions and such a blast from the past to
> ponder upon:
>
>        The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in
>        his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed
>        beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot
>        suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on
>        to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any
>        regard either to the great interests, or to the strong
>        prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can
>        arrange the different members of a great society with as much
>        ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a
>        chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the
>        chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that
>        which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great
>        chess-board of human society, every single piece has a
>        principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that
>        which the legislature might choose to impress upon it. If those
>        two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game
>        of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is
>        very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or
>        different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must
>        be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.
>
>        Adam Smith in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"
>
> --- appa
>
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