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Subject:	Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 19 Sep 2000 02:02:37 GMT
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James Brown wrote: > can invest time to get money (with varying efficiency), but have yet to find a > way to invest money and get time. :) 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: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kwilson_tccs/lego.html Open Air Market: Limited edition kit http://www.lionsgatemodels.com/cat-mrkt.htm Craftsman Kits & Custom Lego models: http://www.lionsgatemodels.com

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		Re: Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
(...) 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)

		Re: Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
(...) 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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		Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo
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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