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Subject: 
Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:05:07 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.comSAYNOTOSPAM
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Richard Franks wrote:

"Undeserving" is a very ambiguous term, do you mean those who don't work hard,
or those who didn't have the educational or environmental chances that would
have enabled them to enter a career where they have the opportunity to gain
above average financial reward?

The former. Those who work hard make their own chances and get their own
opportunities, therefore don't need help from some sort of scheme to
make things "equal" as long as the government they're under isn't
actively suppressing rights.

There will always be inequalities of outcome. We can't all be Richard
Branson. He's earned every penny he has and I for one don't begrudge
him. Think how much more he'd have accomplished if he didn't have as
much of his income confiscated by his government..

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  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) Yeah, because for every hard working, self-made mi/bi/tri/etc.llionaire, there are 2.5 deadbeat, silverspooned offspring who have most likely been ignored and have no concepts of value or any other redeeming (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) Wow, that sounds almost as optimistic as my view of the world ;) I agree that those who work can make opportunities for themselves, but also that those with opportunities have the dice loaded in their favour towards gaining new opportunities. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) Ooops - yep, thanks! (...) Agreed - equality doesn't have to be applied universally to make some things more "equal". I don't think that I implied that everything in the world should be "equal". (...) "Undeserving" is a very ambiguous term, do (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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