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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.012447.17287@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 30 Nov 89 01:24:47 GMT
References: <10461@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <10461@encore.Encore.COM> by cook@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Dale C. Cook):
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| [allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) recently posted that: 
| for profit it is probably a good idea to take into account the will of
| the majority of your workers when possible.  Happy workers are productive
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Which assumes that the majority of your workers know about the Usenet, much
less care.

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| The timing of this is perfect!  Should I cite the will of the majority
| demanding a multiple party system in Czechslovakia?  The will of those
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Which helps not at all when the majority demand something that can't be
obtained.  Looked at the Soviet Union lately?  Its economy is such a basket
case that there's no hope of giving the people what they want in any sort of
timely manner -- it simply cannot be done.

This particular argument of yours smacks of "Bread and Circuses".

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| pouring across the Brandenburg gate in Berlin?  Don't be so quick to
| underestimate the power of the "disenfrancised" majority, Brandon!  Who's
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You're not disenfranchised; "available at a reasonable price" is not
equivalent to "not available at all".  But you're demanding it gratis.

++Brandon
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