From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 22:35:48 MDT
At 10:51 AM 5/24/02 -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:
>>Maybe a child of one of those breeders will one day find a cure
>>for cancer? aging? senility? - so you may yet benefit.
>They will find a cure and I will not be able to afford it since
>unlike their parents I paid for their education, and these things
>aren't free.
I don't understand this. Do you mean that people in the USA with children
*don't* contribute to taxes for the education of the next generation, but
instead salt away that proportion of their earnings so they can pay instead
for their own future medical expenses? What a strange society.
>In a capitalist economy we aren't all in this together, we are all
>in competition. You are asking me to unfairly subsidize my
>competition.
What a *very* strange society.
Damien Broderick
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