Of course you will explain to Harry that the inflated price of the tickets is a form of rent. From a Georgist point of view what to do? Sell the tickets and claim/appropriate the rent or use the tickets. Enquiring minds want to know.
arthur -----Original Message----- From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2003 1:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Futurework] Where is Harry? Arthur, Well, I think I might have been a little worried about Harry -- as well as thinking of him as a nuisance for not being in contact sooner, which I inadvertently revealed by my misdirected e-mail. However, he telephoned me last night (just as I was settling into a late evening snooze in front of the TV) to say that he is making his way across Dorset. He and his grandson (*and* his son, it now transpires!) are to visit Tolpuddle (where the famous Martyrs came from) and then the mystical (but largely bogus) city of Glastonbury and thence to Bath. Harry was duly impressed that I have managed to get tickets for the Three Tenor Concert (Pavarotti, Carreras, Domingo) to be held this evening in Victoria Park with the Royal Crescent as backdrop. This is the Number One concert in the world right now with tickets being sold on Ebay last night for �5,000 (US$8,000) each -- and even higher, I'm told. So I'm setting Harry a moral problem! He could make a killing if he sold the tickets I will give him to the touts who will assail us when we get there. I am sure that Harry will resist, however. Instead, we will be taking a picnic in Victoria Park with the elite of Bath in the early evening and then proceed decorously to the concert. Many of my friends will be wearing DJs for this grand occasion but I don't suppose Harry and his offspring will have brought such gear with them, so I will have to pretend that these scruffy American tourists don't belong to me as we settle into the highest-priced concert seats that they (or I) will ever sit in. Meanwhile, I have an essay to write this morning for my private list, but I will bear in mind that you are eager to see a photo of Harry and me here. And so you shall. I have no idea how to transmit it to you over the Net, being such a computerphobe and all that, but no doubt my consultant-pal will show me how in a few days and then FWers will be able to see what splendid specimens Harry and I are. I will be the one with the beard. Harry, being ancienter than I, will no doubt look even more decrepit. (I'm rather intrigued to see what Harry looks like -- having bandied thousands of words with him over the years on this distinguished list.) Keith Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
