LOL, as they say. My dad never said that to me but he gave me the equivalent "look".
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 3:05 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it might be wise to couch this within a larger discussion of > private property and ownership, in general. Libertarians seem to think that > private ownership of property facilitates good stewardship of that > property. The tragedy of the commons argues that's not the case because the > scope of ownership is ambiguous. > > That wealth that is accumulated is, at least in negligible part, > *everyone's* property. So not only is Bezos not Bezos. But Bezos' property > is not Bezos' property ... or as some parents are fond of saying "I brought > you into this world. I can take you out." > > > On 3/12/21 12:31 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > > Tangenting off of the Great Man discussion, I would like to solicit a > > discussion on "What is Wealth for". I believe we have attended to this > > on the side many times (I remember a vFriam where it was declared that > > "Billionaires are Assholes, but Millionaires aren't (necessarily)"? > > > > Each of our Great (Wo)Men on the snark/not-snark list share one thing in > > common, Wealth. I'd be interested to hear others riff a little more on > > their taxonomies of "what is Wealth for?" > > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
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