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Subject: [OM] Re: Economics, was Batteries again, again... now OT
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:36:33 -0700
on 9/22/04 4:13 AM, Andrew Fildes at afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On 22/09/2004, at 9:04 PM, Andrew Gullen wrote:
> 
>>> methods, if accepted by the consumer, are revenue generating cash
>>> cows.  In
>>> the abstract, it's the same business model the drug pushers use.
>> 
>> So maybe profit as a sole guiding principle is not a good way to
>> organize a
>> society?
> 
> That depends - what's in it for me?
> AndrewF

Quite so... I believe in a society of complete equality, except of course
since I will be putting my efforts into organizing and dividing the
resources of the society I will be, myself, just slightly more equal than
the rest. After all, that's only fair, right? And therein lies the bugaboo
of all 'equality' societies. How do you divide the 'slightly more equal'
bits... the market seems to do this justice nearly as well as every other
method (just like democracy, its the worst, except for all the other methods
that are not as good...)
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...




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