Comments on: Will Work for Food

By: LowcountryJoe

LowcountryJoe — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:16:20 +0000

I watched the clip and was intrigued. So I rented the movie from Amazon and watched it on the computer. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie…seemed to have delightful libertarian theme to it. Now I think I’ll look-up Bob Gale to verify it. By the way, I picked up a copy of your book and read it several weeks back. Good stuff; at the risk of sounding cliche, it was a page-turner.

By: me

me — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:40:05 +0000

Spot on. Even if it weren’t for the trustworthiness issue, and even if there was irrefutable proof of CO2 as the worst and most important aspect of human-caused climate change – would allowing first-world polluters to continue polluting at the same level by transferring money to developing economies (which would use the money to grow their economic base) be a solution to that problem? Methinks that would just make things worse. Much worse.

By: Bob Hawkins

Bob Hawkins — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:44:06 +0000

The best way to get rid of the guy outside the subway station with the tale of woe, who just wants fare to get home, is to pull a token out of your pocket and hold it up. You only need to buy one token.

And to be precise, what the third world dictators recognize is called “a sucker.”

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:06:48 +0000

Neat clip. Kind of reminds me of the scene in “Falling Down” where a homeless guy approaches Michael Douglas in a park and asks him for a “loan” to help him get back to Santa Barbara. Douglas’ response is priceless.

By: Evil Red Scandi

Evil Red Scandi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:56:06 +0000

Several years ago a co-worker and I tried this – we had some cleaning to get done at a large site (labor intensive, but not at all skilled) and so we tried to get a few of our local “will work for food” guys to do it. We had zero takers and damned near got assaulted a few times.

By: Methinks

Methinks — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:26:20 +0000

Perfect post.

By: Dax

Dax — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:03:20 +0000

This is a great analogy. These third world dictators know a good free handout when they see one.