Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 16:42:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be (Michael C. Vergallen) Cc: chris@calldei.com, mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be, brett@lariat.org, davids@webmaster.com, obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu, pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos2unix Message-ID: <199905041642.JAA07952@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905040455030.5582-100000@ws3.double-barrel.be> from "Michael C. Vergallen" at May 4, 99 05:12:59 am
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> Yes nesessary ... Look in the ideal world (where everyone could live of a > grant or trust fund) his ideas would have been taken up a long time ago... Uh, in this "ideal world", who will grow the food? Or will we all be eating "dollar salad" with ranch dressing on it? Uh, in this "ideal world", who will make ranch dressing? Come to that, who will pulp the wood and print the "dollar salad"? > You look at this this way ... if everyone had the money he or she needed > and could afford to do what they wanted then his model would be > ideal..e.i. everyone working for the greater good and all that ... I guess we could give all the non-leisure jobs to migrant workers? Hey! We could even tax their earnings! That could be how we get all the money each of us needs to enable us to afford to do what we wanted! > now that is RMS's situation ... he can basically write his own ticket > and has not to worry like most poeple about the where the next meal > or rent check is going to come from... Thus because of that he can > afford to tell poeple to give the code for free and tell poeple that > a copywright licence is shit and why not just give the code away... So basically, you are saying that he is a bourgeoise dilettante, who, like many bourgeoise dilettantes, is at liberty to advocate whatever broken socialist economic model he wants, because of his position derived from the economic model he condemns. I guess you are "free" to hold that opinion... > You see what I mean... if everyone had the same amount of money to > do what they really wanted they could be generous and work for free > and give their work away... This is why, in the U.S., where we have the highest per capita income of nearly all nations, we are all so *incredibly* physically fit. We toil happily in the fields, donating our physical labor, since once we make more that the minimum wage times 52 week time 40 hours worth of money, everything after that is just gravy. I think the rest of the world needs to get in on this bounty... I hereby declare that sand is money. -- Somone, please buy this kid a copy of "Atlas Shrugged", and, after he has read it, buy him a copy of the antidote as well; we can't go around turning socialists into objectivists, or we'd be cutting off our noses to spite our faces. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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