Pay no attention to the charlatan in the white lab coat. His lazy proclomations lack the weight of scholarly research--they are but the befuddled maunderings of a solipsistic, goldbricking opium fiend.

And, as to our aquatic canine's comment that I am a slave driver? Perish the thought. Tut tut--bad economics, my fishy* friend. Of course slavery is profitable to slave owners. But this requires a government-supported system that helps confiscate the fruits of the slaves’ labor. Since slave labor is inherently less efficient than free labor, and since so many resources have to be devoted to enforcing the system – most of which are the result of government interventions such as the Fugitive Slave Acts, mandatory slave patrol laws, and laws that prohibited manumission – the system imposes huge burdens ("dead weight loss," in the language of economics) on the rest of society.

No, bad show. Low motivation factor in the workplace. It's so much easier to pen people up in cubicles and give them free coffee. Cheaper, too.

All right, then. Enough about economics. Back to work!

*fishy, of course, is meant as pure just, as true sharks are somewhat different. Unlike bony fish, sharks have no bones; their skeleton is made of cartilage, which is a tough, fibrous substance, not nearly as hard as bone. Sharks also have no swim bladder (unlike bony fish).