Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!maynard.UUCP!campbell From: campbell@maynard.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Re: Power Message-ID: <12233003096.32.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 23-Aug-86 00:52:59 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12233003096.32.MCGREW Posted: Sat Aug 23 00:52:59 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Aug-86 05:16:59 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvisr.harvard.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 26 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU writes: > > From: > > ... money is simply indirect-addressing of power, > money stands for a power over objects and services. > > You are confusing power over PEOPLE with power over objects and >services. Certainly money is power over objects and services, but >not over people. No amount of money can buy the power to make a >person do something he doesn't want to do, give up something he >doesn't want to give up, accept something he doesn't want to accept, > etc. What?!? Gimme a break... Can you get a rock to crumble by paying it? Can you get a tree to fall by bribing it? Money is power over people, and people only. Money and power are two sides of the same coin, and they are convertible to each other the way matter and energy are equivalent and convertible. -- Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc. ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvard.ARPA 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA UUCP: {alliant,wjh12}!maynard!campbell (617) 367-6846 -------