<Yiwu is doing something useful for society.>
Ray, what has Yiwu done for me? I haven't seen anything. Which isn't to say that there isn't something. Just that I haven't seen it. Or, maybe you don't think I'm part of "society". ElM is nailing together CDMA base stations, Jay is providing cash flow into China [where huge amounts of CDMA are being bought]. Many are doing their bit or megabit for me and 'society'. But what has Yiwu done for me? I don't want to have to write my own history. That's very hard work. I expect others to be out there with their nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel, ear to the ground, eye on the ball, back to the wall, [somewhat contortionist admittedly], working 12 hours a day.
< What are you doing you selfish parasite?>
Now, now Ray, you are going off the rails. A parasite by definition can't be selfish because they have to have a living host. In fact, parasites are symbiotic weapons of mass destruction. People who are immune to them use to commit genocide against those who are not, thereby propagating their own, and the parasite's gene pool.
Maoris for example, had a shocking experience with European diseases. Indians sic their bugs on Westerners who develop Delhi Belly or Montezuma's Revenge.
Parasites are most effective when they self-destruct in martyrdom operations against non-immune hosts. So, for example, sars bugs which die with a non-resistant victim are not selfish parasites. They are the suicide bombers of the microbiological world. They die and take the non-carriers with them, leaving the resistant carriers to take over from the ethnicly-cleansed areas.
Now you might think we capitalists are parasites, but in fact we can only live on thriving hosts. We need a LOT of thriving hosts to man the sweatshops, churn out the chips and phragment the photons. We provide our hard-earned capital and our hosts provide the rest. It's the best symbiosis the biological world has ever seen. Selfish? Hardly.
By the way, what have you done for me lately?
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