Please join on Wednesday June 2 for a dinner in Atlanta. E-mail me to RSVP.
Other upcoming dinners include Boston one week later on Wednesday June 9 or Brattleboro, Vermont on Sunday, June 13.
I will also be passing through Cincinnati over the first weekend of June and would be delighted to get together with any readers who live in or near the town of my birth. And will be in St. Louis on or about June 16.
NB: Bumped
I would like to meet up when you come to Cincinnati, since I missed you the other times.
DER ILC LW and other folk here is something interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
The fact that we could do better if government would get the hell out of the way goes without saying.
Be careful in Boston. Don’t let any Celtics fans throw up on you. Now that they’re in the NBA finals, nobody in beantown will be sober for a millisecond.
I’m not a disappointed Suns fan, or anything like that…
Dan,
(late notice) If you mean the weekend of June 1-2, feel free to drop by the Red Lobster at the Colerain exit off of I-275. I’ll be the Culinary Grillmaster on Sunday and Monday night. Ask for Lisa Savu (if she’s there) or Selina for your server. Don’t know if they’re scheduled those nights, but we’ve got lots of good people there.
Folks in Boston can be sober?
Not really a basketball fan, but the Magic play just down the road.
rusty, that was interesting and worth 10 minutes. However, I noticed that the lecturer seems to suffer from some conceptual difficulties of his own.
First, he makes it sound like there is a conflict between profit and purpose. In a healthy system, there isn’t. To profit is to have a positive, productive purpose and to achieve it. And vice versa. Profit is, gains in health and living standards and production of things people can use. You pick a purpose that will lead to that, then feel great when you achieve it – and collect the financial profit as well, which you have earned and which feeds your family (another great purpose of yours).
By contrast, when purpose and profit become detached from one another – when doing the right thing actually makes you a “sucker” a.k.a. “taxpayer”, and doing the wrong thing gets you bailed out – like, say, in Obama’s Wall Street Bailout America – well, that is one definition of a bad system, a system that must be changed.
Second, the lecturer slightly makes it sound like (or slightly implies) that if only we could have a system where people were free to work with autonomy and mastery and purpose and not worry about financial rewards, how wonderful that would be. Well, no. Again, our current system is bad (because it is not actually capitalism, btw). But in a healthy system, the financial aspects are the keeping-it-real part. They are how you measure your progress, whether you are producing something useful, etc. People’s jobs, purposes and to a large extent their lives, only exist in the first place because of grownups minding the bottom line. It’s wonderful if companies can succeed better by giving their employees more autonomy, etc. and I hope they do. But what makes the whole system work (I mean, to the extent that it does work; ours today functions poorly) are the grownups minding the bottom line… and doing it in a context of political and economic freedom, including the freedom to fail, i.e. real capitalism.
P.S. To be clear: by a system with “the freedom to fail”, of course I really mean a system in which the actors (people) have “freedom from being forced to pay for other people’s failures” and “freedom from being held back, because other people might fail”.
Count me in for ATL. Sent you a msg.
Wasn’t much of a basketball fan either until I moved to Orlando and it’s growing on me slowly. Several great Greek joints north of ATL otw to and near Cumming, GA.