On 26 May 2013 22:25, Tothwolf <tothwolf at concentric.net> wrote:
You missed my point.
My point was how this (currently unnamed) middleman took advantage of Mr.
Hatfield and paid him only $40,000 for the Apple I while not telling him
what he expected to turn around and immediately auction it for. Mr. Hatfield
certainly took the news better than most people would have (at least in his
public statements), but that still doesn't make what that "middleman" did
right or ethical.
OK, true, but come on, that is good money.
And also... This is how commerce *works*, it is how it's worked for
something like 8,000 years or so. I am sure there were analogues in
Sumeria and Ur!
(Well, ChrisM would say that the world hadn't been created yet 8KY ago
and the archaeology is all lies, but happily, he seems to have gone
quiet.)
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