I'm that type of guy to leave my s'mores in your camper.
I had dinner last night at Sultan Palace with my neighbor and her house guest. I didn't want to be the one picking the restaurant, since I wasn't the guest, but I was glad when we all decided on the place. I like their food, even if their atmosphere isn't quite as good at their new location. The setting was a little bit nicer when they were located on Drachman, or wherever it was. I guess Main Gate Square, its current location, provides a more interesting surrounding, though.
I might be having lunch later this week with a former co-worker (from my College of Public Health days), who's going to be in town again after moving to Flagstaff.
The Tucson Festival of Books is this weekend, so I'll probably check that out.
On that note, below are a few excerpts I wanted to copy from Lisa Dodson's The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy.In community discussions, people have argued that all taking is not equal. It's one thing to steal from yourself when you don't need it; that most people view as morally illegitimate and corrupt. But most say it's something else to steal when your children are in real need, for example. Just about everyone I've talked to over the years--working- or middle-class--says that when it comes to a hungry child, there is no such thing as stealing (21).
In fact, even Adam Smith, one of the fathers of capitalism, believed that a worker should earn "wages [that] must at least be sufficient to maintain him...otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up his family" (39).
Smith seems also to ponder the meaning of "subsistence" and how wages ought to allow "credible" people--those who are working in the nation's jobs--to live according to the "customs of the country." To be paid wages that render the nation's workers unable to participate in the country's customs, in ordinary society, because they cannot purchase the most basic commodities of life, was "indecent" to Smith (39-40).
I might be having lunch later this week with a former co-worker (from my College of Public Health days), who's going to be in town again after moving to Flagstaff.
The Tucson Festival of Books is this weekend, so I'll probably check that out.
On that note, below are a few excerpts I wanted to copy from Lisa Dodson's The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy.In community discussions, people have argued that all taking is not equal. It's one thing to steal from yourself when you don't need it; that most people view as morally illegitimate and corrupt. But most say it's something else to steal when your children are in real need, for example. Just about everyone I've talked to over the years--working- or middle-class--says that when it comes to a hungry child, there is no such thing as stealing (21).
In fact, even Adam Smith, one of the fathers of capitalism, believed that a worker should earn "wages [that] must at least be sufficient to maintain him...otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up his family" (39).
Smith seems also to ponder the meaning of "subsistence" and how wages ought to allow "credible" people--those who are working in the nation's jobs--to live according to the "customs of the country." To be paid wages that render the nation's workers unable to participate in the country's customs, in ordinary society, because they cannot purchase the most basic commodities of life, was "indecent" to Smith (39-40).