I love when hipocracy and ignorance combine

[acroyear]

To create the type of columnist who openly rants to a kid giving away (rather than selling) lemonade, yelling to her readers that "free handouts", "giving it all away", and the expectation thereof is everything that is wrong about America today...

...while running a personal web site on Apache, Linux, and OpenSSL, oh and the FrontPage extensions for Apache that were freely given away by Microsoft.

She probably uses Internet Explorer (freely given away, and specifically to kill the competition), too.

hat tip:Free Lemonade: What's Wrong With America

Comments

Re: Please let this guy not be a Libertarian.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

yeah. and i love this one:

Our economy is in the midst of a great financial crisis. Many of us are lamenting that consumers did not have the financial literacy to understand those crazy mortgages they were offered, or to resist the lure of credit cards that led Americans so far into debt.

I suppose she has revisionistly (yeah, i'm making words up) decided that the lack of Americans ability to figure out these were stupid had nothing to do with the fact that she and her ilk didn't actually say anything about it until it was too late and the bubble burst? There's only 5% of economic writers that can say they pointed out that this was stupid and they were right, and she's not one of them.

She might also have realized that there are many items that should be of value, but in today's climate, nobody would actually pay for. I'm pretty sure if the lemonade stand said "50 cents", she and her driver/brother probably never would have even noticed or stopped the car. She wouldn't have bought the product, thus teaching the harsher lesson that people won't buy from a nobody what they can get from a famous brand, the lesson that kills more start-ups than almost anything else.

the only reason she noticed at all was because it was "free" and that (in spite of her choices *and her employer's choices* for using web server software) must be EVIL and NON-AMERICAN.

Re: Please let this guy not be a Libertarian.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Not only did very few writers point out that bad loans were bad (I saw none, myself), most writers wrote at length about how much every person needed to buy a house, right now. As big a house as possible, as soon as possible. Not buying a house was the same thing as throwing money away, and only something a fool would do, if that fool had been hit in the head with a hammer. The so-called experts were advising the economic illiterates to go out and trust the professionals about what type of loan to take and how much money to borrow, just please, for god sakes, get out there and buy a house so you can stop throwing money away.

Back in those days, if you went to a mall food court and said "I'm having problems with my landlord" you would get two real estate agents telling you about how they could qualify you for a $500,000 loan so you could stop making your landlord rich.