Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!elroy!mahendo!jplgodo!wlbr!etn-rad!jru From: jru@etn-rad.UUCP (John Unekis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: US-Japan chip pact Message-ID: <499@etn-rad.UUCP> Date: 5 Apr 88 20:59:34 GMT References: <3b3430a9.44e6@apollo.uucp> <656@jclyde.UUCP> Reply-To: jru@etn-rad.UUCP (John Unekis) Organization: Eaton Inc. IMSD, Westlake Village, CA Lines: 46 In article <656@jclyde.UUCP> john@jclyde.UUCP (John B. Meaders Jr.) writes: >In article <3b3430a9.44e6@apollo.uucp> nelson_p@apollo.uucp writes: >>... Their educational system >> produces a much higher literacy rate and more engineers. Ours produces >> lawyers and MBA's. ... >You have hit upon the problem. We have way to many damned lawyers and MBAs. >These are the geeks that write the laws and interpret them. They get so >.... What we need are more >engineers who know how to make things work, not a bunch of marketing and >legalese idiots. Once upon a time there was a land that was free of nasty creatures like lawyers and MBA's. Everyone was free to do what they pleased, so they did. They hacked each other to bits with stone axes, lived in the dirt, and ate bugs. Then came civilization, where nasty people like Kings imposed horrible laws on people that made them stop killing each other and taking things by force. Suddenly people were without amusement, so they were forced to invent new ways to spend their time, like studying nature and building machinery. But since they were still free spirited barbarians at heart, they took to stealing other peoples ideas and property. So more nasty laws were imposed to repress this free expression of their natural larcenous tendencies. Then there had to be someone to argue about the laws when conflicts arose, so lawyers came into being. Whats the point? Simply that lawyers are a result of our human greed and mistrust, they are not the cause. I have been an engineer (making computer systems) for nine years, and I have come to appreciate how valuable the law can be. Just try producing a new circuit board for the IBM PC without a patent on it. In two weeks some clone maker will have copied it, and will steal all the profit that should have been the reward of your efforts. If people were good as their word, if a handshake was an absolute bond and no one ever broke a deal, there would be no lawyers. But we as a civilization are basically dishonest and greedy, and our ability to function is based on laws that regulate our conduct. If you want to do away with lawyers, go find a few honest people that keep their promises. Then put them in a business where they lose money by telling the truth(like marketeers in the high-tech computer market, where you have to sell next years features as current products just to get the customers attention). If they hold up their moral standards, you may just have started a new age of lawyerless civlization. But I've never seen it happen. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mine, mine, all mine! - Daffy Duck It's only my opinion - Me ---------------------------------------------------------------- to stealing each others ideas, and