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Hi Rich! Last month (51 days ago) Rich Walker wrote:
Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de> wrote:2 weeks (14 days) ago Michael Bouwens wrote:Do you not have a problem with 'some people' profiting from the work of a whole community?Well, isn't this the very, very characterization of a human society? I mean a human society is defined by individuals profiting from the society. So what can be wrong with this?Erm - I don't know quite which dictionary you're using (perhaps a Microsoft one)
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but unless your definition of "profit" is non-standard, this makes no sense.
I actually used the German meaning where at least the verb does not have this heavy money connotation. But this probably applies to the English term as well when you write of net benefit.
Societies are collections of individuals interacting. Making money - or indeed any net benefit - has little or nothing to do with this.
So you in effect you say that a net benefit is not the goal of the interacting individuals? Why do they interact at all then? Mit Freien Grüßen Stefan -- Please note this message is written on an offline laptop and send out in the evening of the day it is written. It does not take any information into account which may have reached my mailbox since yesterday evening. _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: projekt oekonux.de
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