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: Communities Message-ID: <12228445188.51.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 15:35:39 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12228445188.51.MCGREW Posted: Tue Aug 5 15:35:39 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Aug-86 02:13:29 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: campbell%maynard.UUCP@harvisr.harvard.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu >From: "Keith F. Lynch" > What if you were part of a group, a community if you prefer, and it >is decided that henceforth everyone is to divide all their money >equally. Since, lets say, you have more money than everyone else in >the group put together, and since you worked very hard for many years >spending as little as possible to earn that money, you probably >wouldn't be too pleased with the decision. You would probably even >be willing to permanently leave the group rather than give up your >hard earned wealth. But you are informed that that is not a >choice... > ...Keith Ahh, but that *is* a choice. You are perfectly free to empty your bank accounts, convert all your dollars to lumps of gold, and go live alone in a cave for the rest of your life. In fact, many of us would be quite pleased if you did. -- "There are two kinds of science: physics, and stamp collecting." 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 -------