Bravo! Self service is no service at all. We just access part of the
bank's (or supermarket, or gas station, etc.) mainframe, and doing the work
ourselves, complicate our day and put people out of work. Amazing. And we
call it progress.
arthur cordell
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From: Victor Milne
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 12:22AM
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From: Bob McDaniel
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Sent: February 11, 2000 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy
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In this way may evolve a rationale for paying people for consuming. This is
where some similarity with the Tobin tax perhaps becomes most explicit. We
may see emerge what some writers have already anticipated: micropayments on
numerous purchases, i.e. payments based on bits of information. While
individually miniscule, in the aggregate the pay out may be substantial.
I think we should also be paid when we do the corporation's work for
them--as in self-serve gas stations, wading through voice menus, and the
soon-to-come automated supermarket checkout.
