From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 11:38:39 MDT
> (Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com>):
> Lee Daniel Crocker writes
>
> > > I'll avoid doing business with you, Mr. Crocker, if you believe that "an
> > > excessive desire to acquire or possess, as wealth or power, beyond what one
> > > needs or deserves" is a noble thing.
> >
> > I couldn't have said it better myself.
>
> Why is it noble? Generally, do we not reserve the word "noble"
> for people who make some visible sacrifice for the sake of
> (usually) a platonic principle, or for the benefit of others?
In a truly free market, without force or fraud, wealth is a
precise measure of what you have done for others. There is no
way to earn wealth except to produce what other people want and
will pay for. Earning a profit is the single most social act
one can perform.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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