Re: Capitalism 101: was Re: Terror Kids...

From: Wei Dai (weidai@eskimo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 11:45:03 MDT


On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:55:42AM -0400, Smigrodzki, Rafal wrote:
> Lee Daniel Crocker [mailto:lee@piclab.com] wrote:
>
> forexample, and I don't rent John Travolta or Rene Zellweger movies on
> the outside chance that some of my pennies might make their way to the
> Church of Scientology.
>
> ### Renee Zellweger is a Scientologist?!!!
>
> I didn't know that. Thanks for the info, I'll never see any of her movies
> again (I studiously avoid Travolta, Kidman, and Cruise already, although I
> made an exception for "Vanilla Sky").

Are you sure you guys are behaving rationally here? Suppose the movie is
worth $10 to you, you only have to pay $7 to see it, and the marginal cost
of showing the movie to an additional person is $3, then you're spending
$3 of your money and $4 of other people's money to prevent some pennies
going to the Church of Scientology. Wouldn't it be better to see the
movie and donate $3 to an anti-Scientology organization or some other
worthy cause?

And what's the deal with not buying products made in China? What cause
does that serve?



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