Following up to Alan S wrote:
>It has to do with the dignity of the seller,
>>not the buyer.
>"should do yourself"? Spare me the sanctimony.
have you noticed how fat we are getting?
>In a foreign land I attempt to at least follow those local
>mores I can without compromising my own. If a rickshaw man
>can transport me to where I need to go, and he wants to, and
>I want to enjoy that aspect of the local culture while
>adding to his income, why the hell not? Undignified? A
>bloody sight more dignified than the rickshaw man's family
>going without because of your version of the moral high
>road.
if you read all the thread you will see I acknowledge the employment
situation in India, I'm talking about London, mainly.
>If your criteria is that it is demeaning to ask another to
>do a task you could do yourself, presumably you recycle your
>own rubbish, treat your own sewage, grow all your own
>vegetables, raise and slaughter your own livestock, and so
>on.
that's just silly. I'm talking about tasks that you can do perfectly
well for yourself with little effort and no resources. Its absurd to
suggest I can treat my own sewage etc
>None of those tasks are beyond you.
of course they are. I dont own the land for a start. We thrive partly
on specialisation, doing everything yourself just doesn't work.
However there's no need to get someone to replace your muscle power
with their muscle power in the area of personal functions like
walking, most of the passssengers would be better off with the
exercise.
>So why do you demean the
>garbageman, the plumber and the sanitary worker, the farmer
>and greengrocer, the grazier, the slaughterman and the
>butcher, by paying them to do your work?
I dont, I pay for their skills, time and equipment that I dont have
to do a specialised job. That doesn't extend to walking for me.
>Wattaloadacrap.
yes it is isn't it. Especially the personal sewage farm
>Concentration camps? I invoke Godwin's Law.
its a very valid point, "providing employment" can justify anything,
its not a valid argument alone.
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Mike
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