On 28 January 2014 14:46, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/27/2014 2:32 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:09 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/27/2014 12:12 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: >> >> So sure yeah, there's no limit to what you can do when you eliminate and >> don't care about x. Louis C.K. had a good one: "Wow, I can't believe we >> built the pyramids - yeah, we just threw human death and suffering at them >> until they were built. There's no end to what we can achieve when we don't >> give a sh•t how to get there..." Science that advances by eliminativism >> comes with a price and some side-effects. >> >> >> Just because there's a price doesn't mean you shouldn't pay it. We >> eliminated the Egyptian gods, the divine Pharoh and their theology, so we >> don't get pyramids anymore - and I'd call it progress. >> >> > Well Louis' bit finishes in the contemporary world with: "Wow, look at > all this amazing customized digital technology we have", waving around an > iphone, "that's because where they build these things, people are so > miserable they have to deploy nets outside the factories to keep them from > jumping off the effin roofs... > > > There's a lot of young men and women concentrated in a small area. Given > the numbers I don't think the suicide rate is higher than elsewhere. > Universities in the U.S. also have high suicide rate. >
It's below the national average if Wikipedia is to be believed. (I'm sure they are all happy communists, with the means of production controlled by the proletariat...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
