[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > SOUNDS GOOD. SORT OF LIKE TAKING OUT A RENTAL CAR. TAKE CARE OF IT OR > ELSE.
This is exactly one of the ways I have thought this could be done: If Generic Motors sells me a car, then there interest lies in me going back and paying for repair and in my needing soon to buy a new one. But if Generic Motors *leases* me the car, then their interest is for the car to have no repairs. Also note that the leasor will have more of an interest in letting a car go only to worthy customers than will a seller, since the leased vehicle comes back to the leasor bearing deep impressions of the moral character of the leassee. This doesn't sound at all utopian to me. \brad mccormick > > How about it, folks: > > No rights without responsibilities. > > And, my belief: > > A thing of beauty is a responsibility forever. > > As it is now, ownership is a license to destroy, and > some persons are rich enough to be able to > enjoy potlatching (yes, I choose this wor on purpose to > indict a certain non-white-European-male ethnic custom...), etc. > > Private property can perhaps be reconstructed to be > both socially and individually rewarding. > > THEORY TELLS US IT CAN BE DONE, PRACTICE DEMONSTRATES OTHERWISE. > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
