From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Feb 29 2004 - 20:27:37 GMT
Hi David M,
> I feel this is so out of date.
> How much human work right now
> goes on food, shelter, clothing? 1%, less probably.
> So what is going on in this strange world of ours?
> Let's think of all the work we do that produces
> things that have no quality at all shall we.
I don't think it's out of date in Haiti and a thousand other places in the
world today. Nor do I think that modern capitalist countries produce a lot
of things of no quality. In a free market, what gets produced has value to
those willing to pay for the effort of making it. Would you suggest some
group or other dictate what has value for the rest of us, like the
commissars of Communist Russia? I pray not.
Regards,
Platt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: MD When is a metaphysics not a metaphysics?
>
>
> > Poot,
> >
> > > This is what I 'need' in my life now: Money, _work_. These are two
> > > things, which one is FORCED into.
> >
> > Are you complaining? As human beings we're forced to work so we can have
> > food, shelter and clothing which unfortunately do not drop as manna from
> > heaven. Of course, YOUR CAN CHOOSE NOT TO WORK and go on welfare in which
> > case somebody else has to work to keep you from starving. Or, you can
> > relieve the burden on others and preserve a semblance of personal dignity
> > by refusing to accept a handout.
> >
> > As my grandfather use to say, "If you don't work, you don't eat," a
> > truism that most Americans in the Victorian age took to heart and helped
> > build a prosperous, free country.
> >
> > Platt
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