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Um, I actually had fun today, much to my embarrassment. When someone gives me (or a team I'm in) a task to do I seem to become suddenly hyperconfident, and I guess I kinda railroaded people a couple of times, but I *was* right and they *were* wrong. And I wasn't the only hyperconfident person in my group. (The people chosen as 'hosts', who were meant to also lead the group, failed to do anything of the sort, and were soft-spoken and generally nice, so me and one of the other guys from KEGS kinda took over...) We didn't win anything, but we didn't come last at anything either.
And now I have a rant about industry.
In the final activity that was run, basically the only kind of shady dealing you could do was covered by the word 'theft' - theft of ideas, theft of materials, theft of the paper money we were using. Theft of ideas was actively encouraged by the organisers, and the other two were meant to be punishable by a large fine if ppl were caught. The leader of the group who won was invited up to the front to tell us their 'secret', and she just said one word - 'theft' - and sat back down again. And there was no mention of taking away any of their money, because they'd got away with it. Moral take-home message: Theft is not only fine, it's *great*, if you can get away with it. (Someone else *did* get caught. Someone had made these 'garden forks' and sold them to the garden shop. Someone else stole them from the garden shop and sold them to the DIY shop. Then someone else (the one who got caught) stole them from the DIY shop and tried to sell them to the garden shop...)
Also, we got the whole 'companies will take over the world and governments will be irrelevant, and everyone will be creating wealth all the time (and no-one will be allowed to just bring up a family, or just learn stuff, or enjoy their retirement) to put back into creating more wealth, and isn't that great?' speech, which annoyed me somewhat.
But despite these things, lots of numbers flew around and I enjoyed myself immensely. Today simultaneously restored and destroyed my faith in my fellow humans - restored, because the people in my team were intelligent and articulate and able to work out their differences amicably and friendly and non-bitchy, and destroyed, because of the madness of the drive to create as much wealth as possible by reducing the time available to enjoy it in.
And now I have a rant about industry.
In the final activity that was run, basically the only kind of shady dealing you could do was covered by the word 'theft' - theft of ideas, theft of materials, theft of the paper money we were using. Theft of ideas was actively encouraged by the organisers, and the other two were meant to be punishable by a large fine if ppl were caught. The leader of the group who won was invited up to the front to tell us their 'secret', and she just said one word - 'theft' - and sat back down again. And there was no mention of taking away any of their money, because they'd got away with it. Moral take-home message: Theft is not only fine, it's *great*, if you can get away with it. (Someone else *did* get caught. Someone had made these 'garden forks' and sold them to the garden shop. Someone else stole them from the garden shop and sold them to the DIY shop. Then someone else (the one who got caught) stole them from the DIY shop and tried to sell them to the garden shop...)
Also, we got the whole 'companies will take over the world and governments will be irrelevant, and everyone will be creating wealth all the time (and no-one will be allowed to just bring up a family, or just learn stuff, or enjoy their retirement) to put back into creating more wealth, and isn't that great?' speech, which annoyed me somewhat.
But despite these things, lots of numbers flew around and I enjoyed myself immensely. Today simultaneously restored and destroyed my faith in my fellow humans - restored, because the people in my team were intelligent and articulate and able to work out their differences amicably and friendly and non-bitchy, and destroyed, because of the madness of the drive to create as much wealth as possible by reducing the time available to enjoy it in.
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Date: 2002-03-01 09:59 am (UTC)From: