From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 17:21:13 MDT
Barbara Lamar wrote:
>
> Randall Randall wrote:
> >
> > Well, who decides what is "excessive"; what one "needs" or "deserves"?
> >
> > Since you're quoting that definition, I assume you believe that you
> > have a dollar figure above which a person is being greedy? Care to
> > share that figure, so we can all judge ourselves? :)
>
> Surely, Mr. Randall, in a business context, the dollar figure is a function
> of the value of the item you're offering in trade rather than a constant.
>
> Suppose you offer to sell me a widget, together with attachments A,B, and C,
> for $400.
> We both agree that the value of the attachments is $50 each.
> I give you $400.
> You deliver to me a widget with only attachment B.
>
> I would argue that what you deserved is an amount no higher than $300,
> assuming we both voluntarily entered into the trade. Thus, you have received
> an excessive amount.
Only if Mr Randall fails and refuses to deliver attachments A and C when
his error is brought to his attention.
Ms Samantha, Ms Bourlin, and other such anti-propertarians operate by a
different definition of 'excessive', where 'excessive' is any amount
greater than what you would have left if you divided what you had evenly
with every other member of society, and then gave what you had left to
your ex-wife, to ex-POWs of a country your's beat roundly two
generations ago, to members of an ethnic group put upon and decimated by
any body but you, as well as to another ethnic group who used to own the
land you live on hundreds of years ago but unfortunately mostly died out
from ignorance of disease. If you are left with anything after all this
'fairness', then you must have cheated the system somehow (which you
obviously did if you are a white male) and are thus still a no good son
of a bitch.
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