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March 17, 2008

The Gospel Of IOZ

IOZ:

Maybe you're thinking to yourself, "Why is this IOZ fellow, who says he's all for the free movement of labor and capital across borders and over oceans and to distant stars and foreward and backward in time, why is this guy so down and dismissive of capitalism?" Well, this is why:

The answer.

—Jonathan Schwarz

Posted at March 17, 2008 12:19 PM
Comments

Are "IO Z" and "xy z" distant, not-speaking cousins?

Posted by: konopelli/wgg at March 17, 2008 12:38 PM

GREED AND STUPIDITY dance hand and hand. Corruption is the correct term.

Posted by: Mike Meyer at March 17, 2008 01:02 PM

it's the Vowels vs Consonants divide, konopelli/wgg. it's almost insurmountable

Posted by: almostinfamous at March 17, 2008 02:13 PM

fooling you easy marks into supposing that you live in something other than a confiscatory command economy.
Let us remember that here in the USA, we live lives of almost obscene privilege, relative to quite a large percentage of others out there in the world. I'm just sayin' . . .

Posted by: Monkay at March 18, 2008 01:36 AM