At 10:34 AM 1/15/03 +0000, Richard Baker wrote:
John said:> I think that it is a basic truism that when a service becomes cheaper, > people demand more of it. There are markets in which this is only weakly true. For example, the launch vehicle market is quite inelastic - price reductions don't lead to an increase in overall demand, because anybody who can afford the satellite can afford a launch at current prices too.
All those list members who have $20,000,000 US of their very own (not venture capital, etc.) available to spend, raise your hands . . .
All those list members who, by their next vacation could come up with $20,000 for a week-long cruise which, instead of stopping at a few tourist trap islands in the Caribbean, consisted of a loop around the back side of the Moon and a return to Earth¹, by the same sign . . .
Granted,
"No bucks, no Buck Rogers,"
is true. But so is:
"You've got to have a dream
If you don't have a dream
How you gonna make a dream come true?"
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¹Full refund to whoever pushes Kathie Lee Gifford out the airlock the second she starts singing "If they could see me now . . . "
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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