If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[trev]

c minus...gobbledegook

a. your answer is badly presented
b. you don't understand rhetoric
c. you haven't lived in africa like wot i have
d. what the hell is a GINI coefficient?
e. i'm afraid you'll have to spend another year in the 6th form...

lol

lets end this flaming now

trev

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From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 4:29 PM
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Subject: Re: If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

> trev writes:
>
>> "In fact very few have made fortunes out of the music industry since the
>> 70's"
>
>> how much do the directors/owners of sony, emi, etc make?
>
> How many directors do they have? What proportion do they represent as a
> total of the population in the music business?
>
>> It always grows during credit bubbles and it will shrink with the bust.
>
>> study your social history holmes, the wealth gap between rich and poor IS
>> greater than anytime in history
>
> We've also just passed the peak of the largest credit bubble in history.
> I don't think that's a coincidence.
>
>> whether it shrinks or grows over short
>> periods or not
>>
>> you are wrong
>
> The US has a GINI coefficient over 40 just now. Would you rather be poor
> there or in some benighted dictatorship in Africa with a lower GINI
> coefficient?
>
> For most folks, it's about what they do have, not how much worse off they
> are than the nearest billionaire. Relative poverty hurts existentially.
> Absolute poverty hurts in the guts.
>
> FoFP
>
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