<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Perhaps I wasn't clear. I am not saying that rotting food isn't evidence of inefficiency, but that it, in and of itself, is not necessarily a bad thing. I am not saying that it is a good thing, but that a argument, based on all of the actual facts, must be posited for someone to come to a conclusion as to whether or not this particular situation is good or bad.<div><br></div><div>The underlying question here, as usual, is what is the greatest good, and since that is something with which philosophers and us regular folk have been struggling with for ages, I have great doubt that we will resolve the question to everyone's satisfaction on this list :)</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 2010-08-08, at 4:21 PM, Marty Landman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>At 02:54 PM 8/8/2010, E.J. Zufelt wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Why is rotting food a bad thing? If you were to argue that people <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">were starving because of this I might agree that the current system <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">being implemented is not necessarily the best, but the existence of <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">rotting food isn't a good argument for efficiency.<br></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://dictionary.com">dictionary.com</a>'s second definition for efficiency:<br><br>"accomplishment of or ability to accomplish a job with a minimum <br>expenditure of time and effort"<br><br>Couldn't the labor and materials not to mention natural resources <br>expended making food that will rot - and have to be disposed of to <br>prevent attracting vermin and disease - be better expended on other <br>things? Or left alone to be used for recreation iow have less <br>farmland and more undeveloped land by being efficient in distributing <br>the produce. Needing less folks working on planting, raising and <br>harvesting food which is then thrown out? How is this not inefficient?<br><br>On 2010-08-08, at 2:34 PM, Greg Holsclaw wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Efficiency makes all things cheaper, makes them faster. All <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">people are equal in dignity in my eyes, bit not all are equal in <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">skill set nor effort. I work hard to provide fir my family. Much <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">harder than many I know. And I expect to be duly compensated.<br></blockquote><br>Do you expect all your neighbors to also be duly compensated? What <br>about a person born to a wealthy family who contributes less than <br>they get? How does that figure in?<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Yes there are rich capitalist with hordes of money.<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>What sort of services can a person perform to get a yearly <br>compensation of one hundred million dollars? Sorry I just can't wrap <br>my head around that one.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>consulting mailing list<br><a href="mailto:consulting@drupal.org">consulting@drupal.org</a><br>http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>