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2.03.2010

How Socialists Calculate #3: Pornographically

A bunch of bureaucratic slime at the SEC got caught looking at naughty websites on their government-issued Enforce-a-tron financial security computer terminals. How did one calculating socialist justify his malfeasence? Simple, the same way all calculating socialists justify their behavior-- tradeoffs:
"I justified it because I would work late and I rarely would put in for any kind of comp time or anything like that," he said.
In the world of calculating socialists, apparently access to pornography is a sensible substitute for monetary compensation. Who are we to argue? Calculating the benefits of their encroachments into our lives everyday, they've earned their "moneyshots."

Caught sticky-handed looking at porno at work, and they still try to defend themselves with economics. These people are truly shameless.

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