[FRIAM] Los "países de mierda" le dejan millones de dólares a EE.UU.

[Marcus Daniels]

Glen writes:


< So, my answer is: Whatever my tribe finds useful.  If that forces me to rent a hovel in a crime-ridden neighborhood of Pittsburgh -- or worse yet, Kermit, TX -- then that's probably what I'll do.  Luckily, it all hinges on the definition of "tribe". >


Is a company a tribe?   Is a (e.g. married) couple a tribe?   Is a political party a tribe?  Are anonymous contributing members of a non-profit organization a tribe?   Is any group of people that orient around some small but similar set of features is a tribe?   Is a group less tribal as the features advanced by any member is overlaps relatively little with other members?   What if the relative overlap of features is small, but the absolute amount is larger than another group with higher relative overlap?   Is tribalism just the preoccupation with the group over the purpose for the group?   When people say everyone is tribal (which I guess includes me), I feel insulted!   I want a way out of this madness.


Marcus

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Yeah, but this raises the fundamental question.  We're used to having "respect for persons" ... as if it's somehow imperative to think of humans as ends in and of themselves.  As we go from hunter gatherer, through agricultural, through industrial, and informational population sizes to something more akin to a biofilm covering the surface of the planet, the question isn't about what you, as a single cell "like".  The question is one of finding a place where we can exploit you to the fullest extent.

Are you really that useful to _us_ (not you) living in New Mexico?  Or could we squeeze a little more RoI from you if you lived in CA or Pittsburgh?

I'm not being completely facetious, here.  For concreteness, we were at a dinner party a month or so ago and one of us asked "What do you want to do when you retire?"  (Of course, I'll never retire ... So there's only one right answer: "Mu". ... But I played along, anyway.)  Everyone at the table, constituted by relatively well-off white people with white collar jobs, said "Travel".  Already being horrified by the very question, this horrified me even more, given the carbon footprint of jetting around the globe for no other reason than your narcissistic desire to "see the sights".  So I tried to deliver my blow softly.  I would simply like to be useful until I die.  So, my answer is: Whatever my tribe finds useful.  If that forces me to rent a hovel in a crime-ridden neighborhood of Pittsburgh -- or worse yet, Kermit, TX -- then that's probably what I'll do.  Luckily, it all hinges on the definition of "tribe". 8^)

On 01/22/2018 09:53 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I grew up on California but I can't move there in retirement because I'm not willing to pay $1 million for a 2 BR 1 bath house.  Now, if Amazon locates it's HQ2 in Pittsburgh I won't be able to move back there either.  Fortunately I like New Mexico.

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