ù Quoting Carol Shenkenberger from a message to Kent Anderson  ù 
CS> up. !Yet!.  He will.  He is young, and it's popular to say some 
CS> things right  now without thought. he's repeating by rote what his 
CS> 'buds' say and not yet  thinking on his own.  Thats pretty normal.  
CS> On may subjects I did that at his  age too, and i'm sure I do it 
CS> today on some subjects but am not aware of it.
Huh? The opinions I post here are not the whimsy of trends or what my "buds" 
(maybe marijuana buds) have to say. If you want to find some kids my age who 
aren't thinking on their own, drop by a fraternity or sorority or the 
military 
recruiter. I grant that I am not as old as you; that is all I will grant. 
Case 
in point:
CS> Capitalism may not be perfect, but nothing else we have seen allows a 
CS> harder  worker to get ahead of the rest of the herd.
Talk about repeating by rote! This is the basic mainstream ideas about 
capitalism. Two questions, though: (1) Can you really show that the harder 
someone works, the more they get ahead of the herd? and (2) Are you really 
familiar with all of the socioeconomic organizations in the world, or can you 
just think of capitalism and socialism? And hypothetically if there were no 
others, could you explain why it wouldn't make sense to try, considering the 
unfair hording of resources that goes on?
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