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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (33463)	3/29/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: PiMac	Respond to of 108807

Chuzzlewit: <he, he, we are arguing against misinterpretations of one another and our critic's spectres.> <<If we raised a race of Einsteins who will be the garbageman or the postman?>> Raising genius is not my care. They come naturally enough with the methods we have. Garbagemen might have trouble raising their 'share' of genius from their stock, since poor birth care is common. [Yeah, yeah, all, GM make $1000/hr where y'all are. Here it is minimum.] Likewise with many other present day parents. There is a rule of Gardening that says you can not force a tree to grow at a rate more than it is programmed. Your care is simply wasted. You can, however, make it grow more slowly, or not at all. So, Maximum care is the same as Optimum care. This is also an Educational Tenet for children's learning. I do not suggest universal evolutionary minimum care, nor no care at all. But what we do get at birth should, IMHO, be cared for Optimally. Forcing genetic improvement, where there is no defect, is wrong for the species. This experimentation, with few safeguards, I fully suspect, is about to occur.

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (33463)	3/29/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Who will Collect the Garbage? The Count de St. Simon, a former officer of the American Revolutionary Army and the founder of French socialism, has answered your question. In his "phalansteries" he planned that children, who love to play in dirt, would collect the garbage and clean the privies. This is a wonderful theory which I would love to have put into practice. In our town (Honolulu), rather than leave it to children, we leave it to the most ambitious and aggressive workers in the state. These noble union members work on a system called "uku pau." They start early, run to do their jobs, collect every thing left out, pick up the scraps, get gifts of cases of beer each Christmas, and are almost universally beloved for their industry and good humor. How do we do it? They get paid more than teachers to work their assigned routes. On the best routes, the job takes perhaps two hours to complete (at a run). Many of the men and women have families and need the income of another job, which they can easily hold along with the garbage collecting. But hark! The sound of automated trucks with but a single driver begins to displace these energetic people. It costs more, but there are many fewer injuries and workers' compensation cases. In summary, no problemo! Come and see how it is done. You need to get up early, then you can hit the beach and get melanoma.