On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:06:06 +0000, Mike....
wrote:
>Following up to Alan S wrote:
>
>>>I believe (putting the employment situation in india aside) that
>>>paying people to make effort you could make yourself is both
>>>undignified and unhealthy.
>>
>>Did you have milk on your breakfast cereal or in your tea?
>>Presumably you milked your own cow, raised your own grains
>>and processed them, grew the tea plants...
>
>I dont know why people confuse trade with not carrying out simple
>humand functions that require no help for oneself.
No confusion at all. It is ALL trade. The rickshaw driver is
trading his energy and time for your money in the same way
as the milkman trades his, and the dairy workers and the
dairy-farmers, for your money.
You have a fixation on the demeaning (in your eyes) aspects
of service industries. That fixation is a threat to the
incomes of every service worker you come in contact with.
You could also physically serve yourself at the next
restaurant you patronise. Physically, you are quite capable
of it. Try it, and see what the maitre d' has to say about
that philosophy.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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