> >No one else has figured out that the real money is in the _information_
> >about what sold at auction for what? Ever wonder why Christie's will
> >give you a catalog of things for auction but will _sell_ you the results? On
> >line auctions are here to stay and they open a whole new area of
> >opportunity (as this list knows all too well)
> This is a very astute observation.
> I never cease to be amazed by the smarts exhibited by
> the contributors to this list. If we could pool the brainpower
> here we could turn Capitalism on it's head.
> But, of course, many of us are not partial to Capitalism
> so I guess we'll have to stay poor.
MAybe you miss the meaning of Capitalism - without capital,
nothing can be done - also anything is sensless but the
capital and the capital owner - so you could just fry your
brain with great things and work like a dog, but nothing
matters - or this isn't capitalism :)
Gruss
H.
Now very OT - but anyway, I still belive that capitalism
is the biggest burden on computer evulution available
(or better almost all technical advance). No basic invention
was done thru capitalist influence - right the other way,
all Inventors around the 1940s did build their machines
in a dictatorship like government driven environment (no
intelligent capitalist would have spend a single Pfennig
to build a Z3 or Mark I). Also later on things like GUI
have been developed in a non capitalist environment. Not
to mention things like the Ekta(?)plane (The caspian
monster :).
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Mon Dec 21 1998 - 12:32:42 GMT