Good, Cheap Fast - pick two
Nov. 29th, 2018 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apharThere are several instances of pick any two out of three:
Intelligence, Integrity, and Communist Party membership (old Soviet joke)
Completeness, Countability, and no Isolated Points (Baire Category).
Liberty, Fairness, and Equality: people are different, so, in a fair system, some people will earn more; if the system is free, they will bequeath their wealth to their children, which will make the system unfair.
Prosperity, Democracy, and Sovereignty: there is no prosperity without free trade, which requires either negotiating treaties with other countries (and, since free trade benefits everyone a little but bites some special interests, democracies find it hard to negotiate free trade deals, cf. TPP and NAFTA), or surrendering control over trade to a supra-national body (like EU members lost part of their Sovereignty to the European Commission and States lost theirs when they formed the US).
More interesting examples?
Intelligence, Integrity, and Communist Party membership (old Soviet joke)
Completeness, Countability, and no Isolated Points (Baire Category).
Liberty, Fairness, and Equality: people are different, so, in a fair system, some people will earn more; if the system is free, they will bequeath their wealth to their children, which will make the system unfair.
Prosperity, Democracy, and Sovereignty: there is no prosperity without free trade, which requires either negotiating treaties with other countries (and, since free trade benefits everyone a little but bites some special interests, democracies find it hard to negotiate free trade deals, cf. TPP and NAFTA), or surrendering control over trade to a supra-national body (like EU members lost part of their Sovereignty to the European Commission and States lost theirs when they formed the US).
More interesting examples?
