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[M. Fioretti]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 15:40:41 PM -0600, Kevin Carson
(free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 2/3/10, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
>
> >  I may only be able to afford to do it if there is some guarantee
> >  that I can make enough of it to at least pay my expenses for
> >  those same days.
> 
> Nobody is entitled to a guarantee of the ability to recoup sunk
> costs of any kind.  You are free to spend your time any way you see
> fit, and to devise any business model you can think of to get money
> from so doing--so long as it doesn't involve coercing other people
> to make the business model viable.

Very good point, but relax, I NEVER wanted to say anything of the
sort, nor do I think it. That sentence of mine above fully justifies
your reaction. Sorry, my mistake, it's been a long week. Here is what
I do think and what I would have written if I had re-read that message
of mine before sending it:

"I do certain things only if I know in advance that, IN CASE it does
(not "could"!!!)  generate some money in the first N years (where N
should be much, much less than it is today), that money comes to ME,
that is to the person who did spend his own time to do that thing, and
that I can stop others who didn't make any effort at all from taking a
part of that money".

I have nothing at all against the fact that if something I do to make
money turns out as intrinsically uncapable to generate at least as
much money as I spent during the days I did it, I've wasted my time
and that's it, nobody else should be blamed. That's exactly the risk
I'm already, willingly taking these days with some of my activities.

   Marco
-- 
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