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12.14.2004
I often wonder just how much nicer the world would be if people would just stop being so... human? Think about how much time and energy is wasted, how much effort we expend every day dealing with things like email spam. Simply because its a safe bet that there will be enough stupid people out there who will buy something from a spam email. If it didn't work people wouldn't do it right? Think about how much time and money we spend buying locks, alarms, video surveillance and other self protecting measures just because we have to protect ourselves from the actions of a few people that can't play by the rules. It all goes into the big pile of GDP but its really just us getting nothing for our efforts. A small group of people have a disproportionate effect on our lives. Where I work we have a staff of people who sole responsibility is to keep people from stealing from the store. And people steal anyways. A friend of mine had his little truck broken into for the second time this year. They broke out his window and busted up his dash to steal a cheapo stereo. Last time they stole his camera as well as the stereo. Its gonna cost him $150 to replace his window, money he really doesn't have. I've never bothered to replace the factory stereo in my car because I don't to invest in something that might get stolen. I've had the window on my car bashed out once, for a portable cd player, as the car sat in front of my house! All this stuff changes the way we behave. We move out to the suburbs, we stay home, we buy alarm systems, filtering software, locks, safes, guns, etc... and it happens anyways. Then we spend billions each year on prisons, police, judges, lawyers and guards. We lose so much simply because we are human and can't escape our own cursed nature. |
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