Eric Beck wrote:
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> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> > There a number of possibilities.
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> Etc.
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> Well that was a crappy answer. Of course, it was a crappier question
> guaranteed to bring forth a crappy answer. Not sure why you answered
> it. Miles's scenario is equivalent to when people roll out the canard
> that communism will never work because some people are just lazy and
> will refuse to work. It's a toxic conversational technique.
I answered because Miles raised the question. He is one of the handfull of people on this list I like to reach agreement with.
But you are correct.
I tried to take this up indirectly in another post by positing the great damage a merit system can perpetuate in comparison to the damage individual 'icnompetemce' can do.
Carrol