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Date Posted: 11:36:11 07/18/00 Tue
Author: SwimmingUpstream
Subject: Re: Just Imagine
In reply to: Lurker 's message, "Re: Just Imagine" on 11:34:32 07/18/00 Tue

Dear Lurker,

Obtuseness is not a substitute for critical analysis.

My words: "You utilize machinery that is the product of much brain power
that was not always paid for in any contractual arrangement, but was done by
men with active minds."

I did not use the word built.

I do not suggest that the persons who built your car were not paid for that
labor. I do suggest that the internal combustion engine is the product of
much unremunerated brain power, of unremunerated trial and and error that
advanced our knowledge and saved others the labor they would have spent
making the same errors, of unremunerated work in mathematics and physics,
etc.

Ignore the contribution that countless "failures" have made, ignore all the
unremunerated labor ("volunteer" it is somewhat inappropriately named) in a
society that contributes to the well-being of all, and go on thinking that
you "earn" and have "paid" for everything you consume.

I am content to let what I have written in this thread stand against what
you have written. The readers will decide which position better facilitates
human well-being.

Regards

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