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| | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) <snip, extraction mine> In theory, they don't. (or rather, the cost is inherently shared between all participants by their very participation) The basic functionality of a webring is (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) We're mostly all in agreement here, then. What we're doing is choice 1. I think choice 2 might be not so hot of an idea for the "general" ring (although I may set up one just for GoB if the rest of the 'smiths want me to) as it's divisive. Or (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) a (...) Another way to turn money into time is to pay someone else to do stuff for you so you don't have to spend the time on it yourself. In fact, our whole economy is based on the fact that you can turn money into time in this fashion (and (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo) —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | (...) Every time you pay someone else to do something you could do yourself, you invest money to get time. Cleaning services, diaper servies, oil change services... I'd class all of those that way. Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) find a (...) Indeed. And one of the basic tenets of capitalism is that while it's not possible to make goods appear out of thin air, it IS possible to make wealth seemingly appear from nothing, in that every time someone invents a new more (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo) —James Brown
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| | | | (...) a (...) -ish. I would argue that the above aren't turning money into time, just letting me spend time more efficiently. I boil it down to: I can spend 8 hours, and a modicum of effort, and earn/generate a certain amount of money. i.e. Larry's (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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