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Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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Date: 
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:56:02 GMT
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 22:53:37 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:
Jasper Janssen wrote:

No, no, no. Your need for 20 isn't less valid than someone else's need
for 1. But 20 persons needing one getting satisfied _does_ make for a
larger overall level of happiness.

How so? I am more than 20 times increased in happiness than the average
increase in happiness of those 20 other fellas... so the larger overall
level of happiness is on my side...

I'm inclined to believe otherwise - but since I can't prove, or even
really tell, one way or the other, this is a spurious argument ;)

Jasper



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  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) Well of course it's spurious. But so's the original thesis. :-) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) How so? I am more than 20 times increased in happiness than the average increase in happiness of those 20 other fellas... so the larger overall level of happiness is on my side... :-) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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