Firefighters at the site of WTC7 "Move away the building is going to blow up, get back the building is going to blow up."

James Stroud jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Sat May 5 02:37:11 EDT 2007


MooseFET wrote:
> On May 4, 8:19 pm, James Stroud <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> MooseFET wrote:
>>> On May 4, 12:32 pm, James Stroud <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>> [....]
>>>> The Marxist contribution to western thought is that it put everything in
>>>> terms of labor and thus allowed us to quantify the human component of
>>>> economies.
>>> No the great insight by Marx was in the selling of ducks.  "Anybody
>>> want to buy a duct"  has done more to advance economic thinking than
>>> the works of most economists.
>>> Economists have a vested interest in preventing people from
>>> understanding economics.  They are well paid and know that they
>>> wouldn't be for long if people really understood what was going on.
>> You must be an economist because you provide absolutely no
>> interpretation of what the hell you were saying in ghe first paragraph
>> (as if you actually know what you were trying to say). Duct or duck,
>> first of all. Second of all--make a point.
> 
> Groucho Marx.
> 
> 

You could have convinced me that Karl Marx was in the duck business 
because I wouldn't think anyone on any of these lists would be banal 
enough to use such a well worn joke.



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