Talkback EVE: Life and Death by Market Forces

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From:	Drexlus, POEE High Priest, KSC	2001-06-24 00:02:32
Subject:	*just shakes his head in sympathy*
Comment:	I've noticed, you have a habit of making exuberantly opinionated statements as though they are fact. Case in point? Saying that people gather in communities for money. In America, maybe yes. But only because money is used to buy essentials, aka food, water, shelter, and air. (Thank Eris that air is still free) Anyway, there is a perfectly rational explanation for this. It is called 'specialization'. If I may use the classical 'Two-goods World' example from economics...we have two goods. Guns and butter. You are a master gunsmith and can crank out 20 highquality guns in a day, however you really suck at churning butter. You can only make about 40 sticks of butter in a day. I, on the other hand, am a butter-churning fool and can do about 400 sticks of butter on a bad day. Whereas it takes me 2 days to make a gun. Should be both make our own guns and butter? Or should I make only butter, you make only guns, and we trade. (this same concept applies to the use of labor and natural resources) Genetics has nothing to do with it...its common sense. An _individual_ may indeed learn better social skills because of environment, but an assumption that living in cities will make less introverts is not reasonable.
From:	Bob	2004-03-29 23:55:35
Subject:	Money and our life
Comment:	Money is having a big impact on our life. Sure, we kindof need money in order to buy food, but maybe everything should be free. Then, though, there is no need for advancements and people will get tons of things that they don't need, and we'll be screwed anyways. Its a confusing topic...
From:	E + L D=aleph0	2008-03-19 19:01:34
Subject:	money=order
Comment:	people have had to find a way keep everyones individuality in line and shaped towards the same goal, money. if u do something wrong, take away money. if u do something right, get money.i think its a shame how nasa is having funding problems due to the grip of economy. i guess i dont know what im trying to say other than we should put our survival before that of money. if we dont start looking toward the future more... than our ability to create to infinite will be lost F O R E V E R.