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Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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Fri, 3 Dec 1999 05:09:12 GMT
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Richard Franks <spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com> wrote:
> My view is that if you can share a Lego deal equally between X people who want
> it - great. If someone buys lots and lots then less of those other people will
> be happy. (1)
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> Your view is that you *want* it more because you have more money. That money
> comes from ability and working hard. Therefore anyone with ability who works
> hard to make opportunities for themselves, will make the enough money to want
> it as much as you do. (2)
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> My view is that we live in a society where not everyone works with computers
> and makes silly amounts of money(3) - we have nurses, bus-drivers,
> road-workers, teachers, receptionists, quality-controllers at tooth-pick
> factories (4).
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> Most of these people will have ability and will work hard and will perform
> services vital to the community, but don't get paid as much. In *real*
> emotional terms they may want a Lego set as much as anyone else, but are
> somehow less deserving?
You know, while my basic response to this would be, "yeah, I know,
some people, through no fault of their own and through no lack of
hard work, will simply never make a fraction of the money Larry
makes, but that's just reality, we deal with it," I do find what
you're saying to be fairly interesting, and not at all like what
I've come to expect from our wonderful "milk the lucky rich guy till
he's dry to pay for the needs of anybody who has less than him"
socialist friends here.
So yeah, speaking in a strictly feel-good kind of warm-fuzzy way, I
almost agree with you. A person who makes 1/50th of what another
person makes may just want some limited item just as much, may
"deserve" it just as much.
But in my cynical "the world sucks and most people do too so we just
gotta make the best of it" way, I know that it doesn't really matter
if the low-paid person wants the high-priced toy as much as the
high-paid person. The high-paid person usually gets it.
Really, though, does it matter? It's just stuff.
--
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| (...) Thankyou for *considering* my points - sometimes it seems like an all too rare thing on usenet forums! (...) I'm trying to resist the pull of cynicism myself, I don't know how well I succeed sometimes! (...) Very true - if you can't be happy (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Bah, you've got the bigger sigh, you win. No more sighing for me then. *sulk* I was responding mostly to: (...) Which I read as you saying that I said it was wrong/bad whatever, but I've confused myself now, and it's probably not that (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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