Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy

2000-02-11 Thread Victor Milne
  - Original Message - From: Bob McDaniel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 11, 2000 6:58 PM Subject: Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy [snip] In this way may evolve a rationale for paying people for consuming. This is where some similarity with the Tob

Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy

2000-02-11 Thread Bob McDaniel
As a Mac user I tend to be somewhat smug when many of my friends/relatives who use PCs complain of numerous problems and the need to get technical help. But, then, I use VirtualPC with Windows95 on my Mac because of my preference for a genealogical application available only for the PC. Ironicall

Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy

2000-02-11 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Well, it had to come to this when the road was taken by the West that relations with an object as a physical extension of the slave was the meaning of life rather than the growth of consciousness. Poor Maslow got the credit due to the fact that his Western readers saw his diagram as steps rather

Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy

2000-02-11 Thread Timework Web
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Christoph Reuss wrote: > How all this _surplus_ > work (that would be UNnecessary with decent software) should be _paid_, is a > different question (especially for the "end users"!), and this question > doesn't seem to bother Mr. Gates (as in the quote above). Considering t

Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy

2000-02-11 Thread Christoph Reuss
Tom Walker replied: > Considering that Gates is the recipient of a share of all this unnecessary > spending it would not bother him. Moreover, the fact that all those salesmen, PC supporters etc. *also* get *their* "share of all this unnecessary spending" explains why this producer of crappy qu

Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy

2000-02-11 Thread Christoph Reuss
Tom Walker quoted > MR. GATES: Well, part of the lesson of economics is that there are > infinite demands for jobs out there, as long as you want class sizes > to be smaller, or entertainment services to be better, there's not a > lump of labor where there's a finite demand for a certain n

The Bill of Gates fallacy

2000-02-11 Thread Timework Web
Microsoft Timeline Business @ the Speed of Thought Remarks by Bill Gates Georgetown University School of Business March 24, 1999 QUESTION: During the course of the presentation, you mentioned job reduction a number of times. While, as business students, we can all apprec