Re: Take your Whuffie and shove it, WAS: So who's counting?

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 20:03:20 MST

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    > (Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com>):
    >
    > Don't know if it develops in the story, but it seems to me that the
    > whole whuffie economy is based on an enticement for people to behave
    > the way others want them to behave and not according to their own true
    > natures. It is peer to peer consensual fascism. Reminds me much of the
    > society of Brave New World.

    Seems to me you're describing good old free market capitalism: people
    earn money only to the extent that they do things or produce things
    others want to pay for voluntarily. Why should people be rewarded for
    acting according to their "true nature", if, for example, they are by
    nature predators and not honest traders? 

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