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[Sunder]

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.


Since capitalism is a meritocracy (Those who work eat;  Those who don't
starve) and you've stated that meritocracies are good, are you at long
last saying that capitalism is a good thing?


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