At 00:21 03/10/2010 -0400, REH wrote:
Does it take a mathematician to be an economist? Well, when Stanley Jevons first digitized utility he decided that Use = Utility and for him, being useful was pleasure. Go figure. From that we got the ownership society.
There always has been an ownership society. Go to Papua New Guinea where there are still some hunter-gatherer tribes, still living largely as they were thousands of years ago. Ask them whether they share their patch of rain-forest environment with the tribe next door. Some tribes live on poles 100 feet in the air because they're afraid of being slaughtered in their sleep by an adjacent tribe.
KSH Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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