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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   The Restaurant industry employs 10% of the workforce, and 4% of the U.S. GDP,   
   is   
   an $899 Billion industry with 15 million workers, including 2.5 million   
   waiters,   
   and more busboys, waiters and busboys are not producing any equity, but rather   
   are   
   performing a non-essential service and committing self-danger and self-harm,   
   for   
   other's entertainment.   
      
   COVID regulations should all be based on employee and consumer protections.   
      
   Consumers merely need advisement.  Prohibition has no place for consumer's   
   sake.   
   Yet employment of self-harm would be rightfully prohibited, but if you are to   
   take   
   someone's job away, and other people's opportunities away, be they already   
   unemployed; you must provide society with education, and ability to find new   
   employment - that means cash at the bottom.   
      
   COVID, and other national emergencies and travails, exemplify the hardships of   
   poverty.  Socialism of my sort, has merit in the first place, in times of   
   trouble   
   it becomes all the more pertinent.  Refer to my "SAFETHIC " acronym posts for a   
   definition of my sort of socialism.   
      
   Nepotism - favoritism to your relatives, is unfair.  It is unjust.  If   
   socialism   
   is right, it is owed, not given.   
      
      
   You have a right to free association, you have a right to go to Church.  But   
   you   
   should intelligently temper your exercise of these rights yourself.  Just like   
   smoking kills, don't smoke.  You have a right to suicide, yet we'd all   
   encourage   
   you not to commit it.  But Corporations are marketing cigarettes as recreation   
   and   
   not as a suicide act.  Restaurants and bars and nightclubs are marketing   
   dinning-in, and commercial parties, as recreation, and not as suicide acts.   
   Consumers merely need advisement.  Prohibition has no place for consumer's   
   sake.   
   Theoretically.  But there's not enough advisement on cigarettes.   
      
   Prohibition for the sake of consumer's can't work, whenever a black market   
   would   
   spring up.  But prohibition for the sake of employees is another thought,   
   especially when there is an employing middle man between the employee and the   
   consumer, as there usually is.  Hiring a prostitute, then, could be like paying   
   someone to self cut, for your amusement, rather than for a profit.  That is   
   where   
   things get more tricky.  That is, being both the employer and the consumer at   
   the   
   same time, is where prohibition of employment gets more questionable.  Madams   
   and   
   Pimps wouldn't much exist if prostitute's individual right to sell were   
   protected.   
     And if they are not of a criminal element, those such as Madams and Massage   
   Parlors can be put out of business, through fines against their business, not   
   their person.   
      
   I mean, the point is, that you could prohibit employment for a reason.  For the   
   sake of stopping employment of needless self-harm, if it is so determined it   
   is,   
   and prostitution, like being a Waiter, is a non-essential service for   
   entertainment.  And neither produces any equity nor builds the economy.  But   
   both   
   the employee and the individual, must always be protected, and the business the   
   target of the legal object.   
      
      
   COVID will come right back after any renewed shutdown.   
      
   COVID grew from a few cases in the first place.  You're not going to eradicate   
   for   
   three months 100%.  So everything must be sustainable, or it's on/off, off/on,   
   on/off, off/on, forever.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)