OT: Nonprofits Review Technology Failures

Dave Mason dmason-bqArmZWzea/GcjXNFnLQ/w at public.gmane.org
Sat Nov 20 05:26:17 UTC 2010


On 2010-Aug-17, at 12:55 , Mel Wilson wrote:

> $1000 seems good -- you can avoid the industrial squalor pitfall at  
> $1000.  There are other industrial pitfalls; you can read the Club  
> of Rome report, or you can read B. Traven (who wrote _The Treasure  
> of the Sierra Madre_.)  In a collection called "The Night Visitor"  
> he published a brilliant, funny short story called _Assembly Line_  
> with a Mexican peon, a visiting American businessman, and a strange,  
> inverting quantity-discount curve.  I've already said it's  
> brilliant, haven't I?

http://libcom.org/library/assembly-line-b-traven

and it *is* brilliant

../Dave

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