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From: ACSH@UHUPVM1.BITNET (James N. Bradley)
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Subject: RE: At Long Last---A Little About ME...
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Date: 28 Feb 90 00:00:53 GMT
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>makes an assumption that somehow it's possible for him to make money without
>stepping on other people's ability to do the same; or at least, decides it's
>okay to infringe on others' freedom in order to promote one's acquisition of
>such necessary staples of life, VCRs, color TVs, and McDonalds hamburgers.

Who are you to decide what is a staple?  What you're discussing here is
competition, and in any system, there's going to be competition.  If I
succeed, have I stepped on other people?  A promotion may only go to one
person in a department, but that's not ME limiting those who didn't get
the promotion. I'm certainly not infringing on their freedom by earning
a better salary, or having a better job.

>Problem is, he's wrong.  Money he makes comes from somewhere else, unless
>he builds things himself, which I doubt.  His philosophy is based on an
>absurd, simplistic sort of individualism that actually seems to believe that
>it's possible to live a life without having an effect on others.
>--andy perrin

Or, quite possibly, he doesn't care what effect he has on others.  Certainly
that is well within his rights.  The notion that my having something infringes
on someone else's right to have something seems absurd.  No right to equality
of property exists.

Jim Bradley