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From: kpicott%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Socrates)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday Shopping (Con)
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Date: 22 Dec 89 15:04:45 GMT
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In article <65018@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Do all these arguments justify the immense cost of the forced sunday
>closing?  Yes, that cost is high.
>
Actual that cost is imaginary.  The dollar "cost" is nothing compared to the
human cost of having no time for rest.  In the business you and I are in we
can pick and choose when we want to rest and when we want to redouble our
efforts since we are task-oriented.  The retail workers are hour-oriented.
They only have time to give and money to gain.  Here my prejudices show
through in that money<<time.  (<< means "worth much less then".)  So, where
the dollar cost may increase up to 25% as you say (or actually decrease, as
Mary Margaret says) the time cost has *definitely* increased by 1/6.
(Somebody has to work, people aren't manufactured for the extra day so that
much extra time is being used up.)

>I wonder how many people are dying in that traffic
>to keep stores closed, if you want to ask the emotional question.
>
Their risk, if you want the cold logical answer.  Toronto is a pathological
case in regards to any of these issues.  How many people are dying in the
traffic to keep the stores and offices open during weekdays?

Your priorities are capitalism and the efficient use of money.  (As opposed
to resources, since in real life if there were less parking lots, cashiers,
etc.. there would be more stores.)  My priority is trying to get people to
take a look at how stupid they can all be sometimes and to open their eyes
as to where they are going.  For this reason the two opposing views can
never agree on the issue at hand.  Check out my previous article for an
attempt at a compromise.

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 Kevin Picott   aka   Socrates   aka   kpicott%alias@csri.toronto.edu
 Alias Research Inc.  R+D          Toronto, Ontario... like, downtown
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