Good morning Jay,
Now the way we pay government officials has come to the end of its cycle and must be changed!
Make yourself a great day.
That's one way to look at it Raymond! I doubt they will ever be "new and improved..."
Change is the better way to go!
Anything that stifles Free Enterprise and Innovation stifles the human race. We progress and move forward as long as we remain Free!
Did Charlemagne say that? I did not think the spring loaded mouse trap was invented until later? Very good point though.
Gene - why do you imagine that in 800AD they had what we have?
My book says he said it! I supposed the trap was something made where the mouse could get in but not get out. And apparently they knew to use cheese!
The book also says that when his wife saw a trapped mouse she cried because she knew it would be fed to the cat!
P.s. The spring-loaded mouse trap was invented in 1894 - by a guy named Hooker!
Jay- I love this one and while I was reading it I kept thinking of all of the second mouses who got the cheese. I remember going to a museum outside Detroit when I was 17 and it had the first typewriter, for example, and showed how it improved/morphed over the years. This comes about only with free enterprise, where anyone is free to try to build the better mouse trap, or even find a way to eliminate the need for one.
Kathy - people use the buggy whip as an example of creative destruction. But they are still around and used. The typewriter is a far better example.
When the word processor came out Kennedy wanted laws protecting the typewriter workers' jobs so they wouldn't go unemployed. Well, who would put together all the proliferating products of that decade? The VCRs, the microwaves, and the Clapper?
The typewriter workers got the cheese!
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