Monday, February 21, 2005
Over at Crescast Sententia, Waddling Thunder has written a brilliant Swiftian parody of the politcal economy.
He invents a mythical country, "France", and procedes through a parade of horribles:
Minimum wages so high people are thrown out of work. Crushing levels of taxation that fall hardest on the poor. Regulated hours and working conditions. Once hired, a worker cannot be fired, so worker is a euphemism. One in 4 works for the state, and gets higher wages than in the private sector. The best colleges are structured to train bureaucrats. Government monopolizes key sectors of the economy, like transportation infastructure. The citizens are angry and appalled - they want more government, higher taxes, shorter hours, fewer incentives to productivity. It's very dry and straight-faced. You could almost believe in this "France". But of course he's really talking about Massachusetts.
He invents a mythical country, "France", and procedes through a parade of horribles:
Minimum wages so high people are thrown out of work. Crushing levels of taxation that fall hardest on the poor. Regulated hours and working conditions. Once hired, a worker cannot be fired, so worker is a euphemism. One in 4 works for the state, and gets higher wages than in the private sector. The best colleges are structured to train bureaucrats. Government monopolizes key sectors of the economy, like transportation infastructure. The citizens are angry and appalled - they want more government, higher taxes, shorter hours, fewer incentives to productivity. It's very dry and straight-faced. You could almost believe in this "France". But of course he's really talking about Massachusetts.
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