21 Dec
1998
21 Dec
'98
4:32 a.m.
>No one else has figured out that the real money is
in the _information_
>about what sold at auction for what? Ever wonder why Christie's will
>give you a catalog of things for auction but will _sell_ you the results? On
>line auctions are here to stay and they open a whole new area of
>opportunity (as this list knows all too well)
This is a very astute observation.
I never cease to be amazed by the smarts exhibited by
the contributors to this list. If we could pool the brainpower
here we could turn Capitalism on it's head.
But, of course, many of us are not partial to
Capitalism
so I guess we'll have to stay poor.
MAybe you miss the meaning of Capitalism - without capital,
nothing can be done - also anything is sensless but the
capital and the capital owner - so you could just fry your
brain with great things and work like a dog, but nothing
matters - or this isn't capitalism :)
Gruss
H.
Now very OT - but anyway, I still belive that capitalism
is the biggest burden on computer evulution available
(or better almost all technical advance). No basic invention
was done thru capitalist influence - right the other way,
all Inventors around the 1940s did build their machines
in a dictatorship like government driven environment (no
intelligent capitalist would have spend a single Pfennig
to build a Z3 or Mark I). Also later on things like GUI
have been developed in a non capitalist environment. Not
to mention things like the Ekta(?)plane (The caspian
monster :).
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK