A Fish Doesn't Know he's Wet

Probably true.  But he does know when he is dry.



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I brought up the following Facebook comment at our table at the diner this morning:

 "I don't find much relevance for capitalist
 philosophy with the business owners that I know."

Vacant looks turned into vigorous facial expressions and discussions followed.  The fish/wet thing came up with the question of whether the fish considers water a philosophy.

This led to a philosophical discussion of air and it would be necessary to have a philosophy of it if you wanted to breathe.

When I mentioned bartering some were quick to add that trade with chickens is trade with a different store of value, and therefore, capitalism.

That deteriorated into one man's vague college memory about when they used chess pieces for money.

"Yep, I brung a queen in to git a bag of tobackah and some rollin' papers, and the clerklady gave a rook and two pawns in change."

Then some tried hard to be serious.

"If it ain't using capitalism, they must be state run, state owned, or state regulated.  That's the difference."

"Mebee they's got slaves instead of paid labor employees."

"If the owners control the production and they get an income from their labor, the relevance is in every aspect of their lives, whether they find it or wish to ignore it, they are immersed in it."

The topics then drifted into food, the weather, and what to do with the rest of our lives.

Jacob mentioned if it ain't raining he was going out for fish tonight.