Selling Out: Where is the line crossed?

[chilango]

Inspired by the RTB thread.

At what do you consider the line is crossed into "selling out"?

Does it actually matter anyway?

 

[Pickman's model]

talking to cops e2a even on an asking for how to get to buckingham palace basis

 

[Pickman's model]

talking to anyone

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Begging someone to take you off ignore.

 

[dishevelled]

Sitting in a white van operating a speed camera on your fellow civilians.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Sitting in a white van operating a speed camera on your fellow civilians.

That's a socially useful and laudable job, surely?

 

[dishevelled]

That's a socially useful and laudable job, surely?

I don't think so... morally.

 

[DotCommunist]

screw, bailliff

jobs where you get 2 quid more an hour to put the heavies on w/c people.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

I don't think so... morally.

Care to expand on that?

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I wouldn't work for a tobacco or alcohol firm. That's about as far as my principles go.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

screw

Do you think we should have prisons? If not, what should we do with bad people?

 

[DotCommunist]

Do you think we should have prisons? If not, what should we do with bad people?

Make them fight in an arena for the entertainent of all?

but no, screws are nobheads, you're a whig so of course they make you hard

 

[DotCommunist]

Do you think we should have prisons? If not, what should we do with bad people?

go on, defend baillifrey

 

[chilango]

I'm thinking more about examples of when one's material interests are no longer in common with the wider w/c.

So:

Owning a "buy to let"
Becoming management
Having a "portfolio of investments"
Employing a cleaner
Sending your kids to private school

Etc etc.

Are these "selling out"?

Why?

Why not?

Why, and how, does it matter anyway?

What choices do we have?

...and so on.

 

[DotCommunist]

private schools out- its direct transference of privilege. And I don't mean buying lil jonny saturday lessons to get his woeful maths grades up, the proper deal

 

[DotCommunist]

I wouldn't work for a tobacco or alcohol firm. That's about as far as my principles go.

Do you think we should not have smoking or drinking? what then will you tell the mob that comes to beat you to death?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Do you think we should not have smoking or drinking? what then will you tell the mob that comes to beat you to death?

Banning doesn't work, but it's possible to make it very tough for the booze and fag interests by attacking their differentiation, profits and growth - none of which affect existing users.

 

[chilango]

private schools out- its direct transference of privilege. And I don't mean buying lil jonny saturday lessons to get his woeful maths grades up, the proper deal

What about if, say, there was a scholarship?

...or a 75% discount for children of staff?

 

[DotCommunist]

What about if, say, there was a scholarship?

...or a 75% discount for children of staff?

fuck me, no.

 

[Pickman's model]

I wouldn't work for a tobacco or alcohol firm. That's about as far as my principles go.

i don't think they'd have you anyway

 

[DotCommunist]

nobbly kneed scholarship boy

 

[Maurice Picarda]

go on, defend baillifrey

Collection is a necessary consequence of debts. Unfair and exploitative lending practices are the more important issue.

 

[DotCommunist]

Banning doesn't work, but it's possible to make it very tough for the booze and fag interests by attacking their differentiation, profits and growth - none of which affect existing users.

you'd just end up with a home grown/brewed industry. Love the fact that the extent of your piety is as far as booze n fags. Fly not too high icarus lest thy wings etc etc

 

[Pickman's model]

Do you think we should not have smoking or drinking? what then will you tell the mob that comes to beat you to death?

that's why he'll be beaten to death

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Having a "portfolio of investments"
.

What, like a pension?

 

[Pickman's model]

Collection is a necessary consequence of debts. Unfair and exploitative lending practices are the more important issue.

council tax not the consequence of lending

 

[Pickman's model]

you'd just end up with a home grown/brewed industry. Love the fact that the extent of your piety is as far as booze n fags. Fly not too high icarus lest thy wings etc etc

he'd like to work for big pharma, he gets hard now only at the thought of medical experimentation

 

[likesfish]

Tobacco firms are wrong ens they knew the stuff killed years before they admitted and have moved into the poor world big time as its kind of hard to get away with their shit in rich bit these days.

Baliffs, screws, police etc. Unless Human nature radically changes your always going need to have someone to go "Oi stop your out of order" and enforce societys rules. Because some people are lazy or stressed or just not thinking.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

you'd just end up with a home grown/brewed industry. Love the fact that the extent of your piety is as far as booze n fags. Fly not too high icarus lest thy wings etc etc

I'd have said arms manufacturers, but they do all sorts of nice and fluffy civil contracting as well. Lockheed Martin did the census. General Dynamics does NHS recharging.

 

[DotCommunist]

Collection is a necessary consequence of debts. Unfair and exploitative lending practices are the more important issue.

collection? thats a nice euphamism for going round robbing poor peoples goods cos they couldn't keep up a payment