Re: the economics of transition to nanotech

From: Elizabeth Childs (echilds@linex.com)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 13:33:37 MST


John Clark said:

> They'd pay for the same reason people already give hundreds of billions of
> dollars to charities and for tips, because they think it's the right thing
to do.
> If things become even more prosperous I see no reason this sort of thing
> won't increase.

As personal income increases, the percentage people donate to charity
increases.

In the "greedy" eighties, charitable giving reached all-time highs. I don't
know offhand what it's at now.



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