On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Sunder wrote:
So from your reply, I'll assume the answer to my "So are you finally evolving?" question is still No.
Sorry, you can't imply anything other than what is openly stated in my commentary. Implicatives will bite you in the butt.
I'll take that to still mean "No" :)
I, and everyone in the world, is aware that commerce != capitalism,
Not hardly.
To whom does "Not hardly" refer to exactly? Care to point the individual names of those who are not aware that commerce != capitalism so that we can both ask them?
and that you are avoiding the question.
And EXACTLY what question might that be? You ramble so much it gets hard to follow what you're talking about NOW.
Deja Vue. Now if you'd only see yourself through that lens. The question I asked you was in this quote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Sunder wrote:
Oh, you mean like the parable of the ants and the grasshopper? Where the ants get the results of the work they put into it, and the grasshopper who didn't do any work starves and freezes in the winter?
So now you're saying that the very thing you've had a problem in the past with because it's capitalism is now a good thing.
Which was in response to this message: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
Don't confuse having a high standard of excellence with simple egotism (which is the majority of the cases with both your examples).
And no, a meritocracy isn't disriminatory. You get what you put into it, not what somebody else thinks it's worth.
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