Re: Obesity (was Extropic Priniciples)

From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 12:23:39 MST

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    Adrian Tymes wrote:

    > In both cases, you don't simply give the food away to
    > the poor. Someone pays a reasonable price on behalf
    > of the poor. In fact, that is more or less the system
    > we have today, except that in the areas where famine
    > happens, governments (in effect, if not always in
    > fact) seize the food that was going to the poor and
    > sell it for their own profit.

    And this is exactly the wrong system. You should read "The Road To Hell"
    by Michael Maren. While not a complete analyzis It has an interresting
    twist on things.

    http://www.netnomad.com/f-reviews/nytrev.html

    http://hallbusinesses.com/biographies_primers/1000.shtml

    http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v1/1/5.htm 

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hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
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