-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Tanstaafl: > On 2014-02-21 10:28 AM, Gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:03:47 -0500 Tanstaafl >> <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: >> >>> On 2014-02-21 8:54 AM, Daniel Campbell <li...@sporkbox.us> >>> wrote: >>>> If you think all profit is the same, then we are talking on >>>> two different wavelengths. >>> >>> I didn't say that. I said that *everyone* operates under the >>> profit motive. >> >> And that is simply not true. > > Yes, it is, but you may be confused about the meaning of 'profit'. > > Even someone who volunteers in the local soup kitchen feeding the > homeless is doing so under the profit motive. The things is, the > 'profit' involved (may) only involve(s) a 'warm fuzzy good > feeling'. > > If you read my previous words, I said it wasn't always (though I > think it is usually) some kind of 'financial' profit. >
You didn't say it, but it feels like you are talking about "personal profit". If not, then your definition of "profit" is so broad, that it is almost meaningless. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTB32KAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWzvssIALcVgrXn/XGTx5ZmXJjuUpIq eN6m6pBQ8b8oO5ujZpx9/l2rMt5zNzwaLpHhF5UEZiZXEEqt9+NSOP62vEuGHn2y Xk5JUDNngIuQaz4geKJXs9YcyA2ZV1MFhZYaxDBOq4DZ4+j75e0FiHuh3jGHfr1+ qUkZWxyWAxoIGb3CUWTedgpr6HqzMJWycL8BDutItfp7dpCobGoY2DSRKX3iSH73 1jtfOx+Ec2QScAmy+fi7sVN9yp5sSSlM4YVmzS5nSw2zemsYVmfqhrTNdPAcy2QE k1xlalMzoIY2EGi68ThjRniXrAQoH2R7kfQsavFSVfratbjjuvdDHxa4sNnbjAE= =V8cT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----