At 11:25 PM -0800 5/4/97, Kent Crispin wrote:
On Mon, May 05, 1997 at 12:31:12AM -0500, snow wrote:
Kent Crispin wrote:
AP? You apparently don't have direct knowledge of this, but after a certain level of economic security has been reached economics becomes a much less important as a motivator [Maslow].
Bullshit:
Donald Trump. Leona Helmsley, The Kennedy Clan, etc.
I would say that with economics, the _more_ you have the more it motivates your life.
And of course, Tim May, and John Gillmore.
Indeed, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is very much in line with what I see all around me (and with Nietzsche's "will to power," of course). The fact that I have spent many hours a day for almost 5 years on this and related mailing lists, for which I've received not a dime of financial benefit, ought to make clear that some things are more important than making more money. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."