-- On 1 Dec 2001, at 8:18, georgemw@speakeasy.net wrote:
I'm surprised I've gotten so much disagreement over this, particularly since my original statement was much weaker than it could have been. For reputation to have a single well defined value it is necessary but not sufficient that there be a market in reputations; it must be a COMMODITIZED market.
Not so. Something has a single well defined value to its possessor without any need for it to be commoditized. For an item to have a single well defined market value it needs to be commoditized, but that is a different issue. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG U5GMQeSNlQCQl5JIYhGl4zYPDycgMVdHUxmfk+l2 4S5Ss0+J1kdE7tCI/aRLeU8oLqXOwYgyIK3jX5qqJ