Re: Y2K2, Mother Theresa and Productivity

[john courtneidge]

Title: Re: Y2K2, Mother Theresa and Productivity

I snip from the above, the following. At base, this is my heart ache with capitalism: that you have to choose, as an adult, to either exploit or to be exploited. Of course, the subtle evil (say for example the compound interest part of the triple evil system) is the fact that the middle income people in the 'developed' world are provided a sense of being beneficiaries of the system (through, in this case, their savings, their pension plans and so on), while *actually* being *net* losers (the 'interest paid/interest gained' sum shown in, say, Margrit Kennedy's book). Thus:     - Grandma's savings income evolves into grand-daughter's eviction notice:         - no wonder the present level of inter-generational hatred! hugs john ********* ps apologies that I haven't replied in detail to the scarcity/abundance queries: my time is being stolen from me (see above!) *********       ---------- From: "Ray E. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Timework Web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Y2K2, Mother Theresa and Productivity Date: Mon, Jul 17, 2000, 8:17 AM    What is required here is capital and that is only available to the leisure class or the economically stupid who spend themselves broke for the work (like myself). They could do something useful like go into retail or economics but frankly those are the same people who will take advantage of any contribution to the culture that they make and imitate their work to sell in scale either slightly altered or on the TV or internet with no return for his hard work.