Re: GREED and FAIRNESS (was Bitter Pills)

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 11:41:10 MDT


>Barbara wrote:
>What would be the right thing to do in the following situation?
>
> You pay $20 for a desk at a garage sale. You take the desk home and
>decide
>to take out all the drawers to give them a good cleaning. Pulling out
>the
>middle drawer, you notice a button that had been hidden by the drawer.
>You
>press the button and a secret compartment springs open, revealing a
>stash of
>$10,000 cash. Do you consider the cash a bonus, rightfully yours since
>you
>purchased the desk? Or do you return the $10,000 to the seller?
>
>Barbara Lamar
>
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>
I'd go and buy the book that you got this question out of, then I'd
spend the next year and a half feeding them to the extropian's mailing
list one at a time.
-It's better than a video!



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