Re: What do workers compete for?

On Sun, 16 May 2004 16:42:31 -0700, The Trucker <mikcob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>royls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sat, 15 May 2004 19:25:18 -0700, The Trucker <mikcob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>It seems that the enforcer and the owner must both "work"
>>>for their position, but the work they do is minimal when we consider
>>>the amount of nuts they get out of the deal.
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>> Nope.  The enforcer works, the owner doesn't.
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>That is incorrect, I think.  The owner must DO something or the
>enforcer would become the owner.

That also happens sometimes.

>The point is that the owner
>does nothing other than posture and moralize and, perhaps he
>does a sales job on the general public like by giving a paltry
>****tion of the rent to a high profile charity.

Sure.  It's all part of rent seeking behavior: the unproductive effort
devoted to getting a bigger piece of the pie without increasing the
size of the pie.

-- Roy L