On Sun, 12 May 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> Think about what you just said, there. Don't you realize that 1:M
> *always* starts 1:1? It's the same kind of
> "evil-bourgeois-businessman" hierarchical command-economy argument
> that aristocrats and peasants throw around. It's amazing how this
> kind of non-market mentality pervades even the most supposedly
> anarchist circles.
> More to the point, you don't *live* unless you're selling something,
What the hell does *live* mean? There are quite a few folks on this planet
who 'sell' nothing. They grow their own food, they build their own house.
They do favors for their neighbors in return for favors. It's not even
commerce in the barter sense of the word.
I've got a friend who just came back from Africa (she got Cerebral
Malaria and they cut short her tour) and from what she says 'money' is
pretty useless there. No stores, no electricity, no telephones, no air
conditioning. No medical (it was a three hour drive by Jeep to get her to
a airstrip where they could get her to a hotel - all paid with US tax
dollars - not one African whatever they use).
Everybody on the planet doesn't live in Ctl. LA.
And Americans wonder why the rest of the world would like to flush most of
us down the toilet....self-absorbed hubris.
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