On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:39:33 +1300 Paul M <l...@no-tek.com> wrote: > On 15/12/2009, at 7:10 AM, Bob Beck wrote: > > >> | People are at the core motivated by their own self-interest. Anyone > >> | who says they aren't is selling something. > >> > >> Yes, they're selling hilarity. It's The Onion, after all. > > > > Yes, but it's funny because it's true. Even OpenBSD developers are > > motivated by self interest...Ever wonder why the answers on misc@ are > > so taunting or dismissive for people who whine without producing code? > > Self interest is probably THE most basic instinct of any creature > anywhere > - it's how the species survives. > Kids learn, as they grow, to temper it and become more 'human', but it > remains the root of survival of the species. >
It's just that the "boundaries" of self interest expand over time. Like every other kind of shit it expands to fill the alloted space + X% where X is a positive integer. Dhu > > paulm
