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. "Economics" was a poor choice of word on my part, and you make a good point. However, IMO all three examples you give are clearly more motivated by power and gamesmanship than they are by economics. The Kennedys, especially, long ago switched to politics. In general, past a certain level of wealth people remain in the game because they enjoy playing it, not because they need the money. Prior to that level they seek money because they believe they need it. Some people find it hard to make that transition, and continue to believe they need money long after all objective reasons have disappeared. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html