If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[mary]

I'm not a communist, but capitalism isn't all that great, the way it's being
managed.  Theoretically, I suppose both systems have their merits, as long
as they're being managed by flawed humans no matter how good they seem the
result is always going to be the same.  Whether you have people working
collectively for a state, or independently, some people are going to end up
more equal than others, or there'll be fat rich cats at the top, and
everyone else fights for what's left.
I'm not saying anything new, obviously, the barter system would be nice to
see put into action.  We all need money to get by, unfortunately in this age
of consumerism, it seems to be a false deity.  I guess that golden calf was
never really destroyed.
Just a few thoughts I've been milling around since this thread started.  Me,
I don't have any answers, just questions.  Treat people right, is what I
believe and good things will come from that.

Thanks for your indulgence,

Mary

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trev writes:

From: M Holmes <fofp>
Subject: Re: If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!
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In-Reply-To: trev's message of Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:16:37 -0000
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Cc:

trev writes:

> c minus...gobbledegook
>
> a. your answer is badly presented

Then my apologies for that. Sometimes I'm pushed for time and just
rattle them out on the keyboard.

> b. you don't understand rhetoric

Perhaps then you could teach me?

> c. you haven't lived in africa like wot i have

While I'm sure seeing poor countries firsthand can be useful in
understanding a problem, I'm not sure that it's a requirement at the
level at which we're discussing this problem. If it were, then most of
the people in the G20 demonstration this week ought to be sent to live
in Africa before they're permitted to protest. Would you advocate that?

> d. what the hell is a GINI coefficient?

A GINI coefficient is an economists way of actually measuring the
relative wage differences between the rich and poor within a country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

> e. i'm afraid you'll have to spend another year in the 6th form...

May I assume then that you do in fact have a 6th form qualification in
Economics?

> lets end this flaming now

Up until your reply, all posts had all been aimed at the argument and not
the man. I'd be very happy if we'd return to that...

FoFP

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