i'd be surprised if someone hasn't already thought of this

[rone]

Comments

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I thought of it a week or two ago, in fact — inspired by some of the traffic on r6rs-discuss, of all things.

But I didn't actually do it.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

I hate you Milkman Ron.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Too subtle. You need to manip it look like this:



(Phantom Limb from the Venture Bros. cartoon)

[reddragdiva]

Send it to loltheorists.

hah!

[madmerle.livejournal.com]

I counter you with Herman E. Daly (http://www.puaf.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/Daly.html) and his invisible foot:

Adam Smith's "invisible hand" leads private self-interest unwittingly to serve the common good. The "invisible foot" leads private self-interest to kick the common good to pieces. Private ownership and private use under a competitive market give rise to the invisible hand. Public ownership with public restraint on use gives rise to the invisible hand (and foot) of the planner. Depletion has been partially restrained by the invisible foot. It is therefore not surprising to find limits occurring mainly on the pollution side.

Excerpted from Towards A New Economics: Questioning Growth (http://dieoff.org/page41.htm).

Yes, I can be pedantic on occasion...

[coldsleep.livejournal.com]

Heh. Good stuff.

[sandollar17.livejournal.com]

ADAM SMITH! Oh how clever . . .