Not the whole story, just some fragments of the days–-literary, political, sporting, and personal. Why call it “A Salty Blog”? Fond memories of the Players cigarette pack, which was also the cover and title of a Procol Harum album called "A Salty Dog," that showed a wild-eyed Jack Tar, wreathed in a tatty beard, leering gap-toothed–-just the kind of guy I’ve always run into in pubs who, when not telling stories of the ouroboros would threaten to “bite yer ****ing nose off!”
Monday, September 05, 2011
What's the Laziest State/Country/Company?
Here's a quiz: what TV show/state/country/company is this economist talking about?
"...they prefer to receive low quality provided that they too can in exchange deliver low quality without embarrassment. They develop a set of oblique social norms to sustain their preferred equilibrium when threatened by intrusions of high quality. We argue that cooperation is not always for the better: high quality collective outcomes are not only endangered by self-interested individual defectors, but by ‘cartels’ of mutually satisfied mediocrities."
Your candidate(s) may be legion. "The Office." Dilbert.
I voted Hawaii, then a couple of employers, then realized the possibilities were limitless.
Then I worried about myself, that I would end up in these places. Worried about the rub-off.
Then I realized I was writing this on Labor Day. Big sigh of self-congratulation.
Answer: Italy.
From the blog, Kids Prefer Cheese, at:
http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-italy-laziness-is-not-problem.html
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