From: Greg Schmitz (gws1@columbia.edu)
Date: 10/28/02-11:39:22 AM Z
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Judy Seigel wrote:
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> And Greg -- I, too, have an ancient 2nd-hand enlarger and will never
> need another & am on my 3rd (& most utterly hellacious) computer. But have
> a heart -- our whole economy depends on people using up and buying new...
> and the 3rd world economy where these things are made would perish without
> them. Do you want my children/their children to starve?
Judy - I assume you are being sarcastic? Contrary to popular belief
(here) and the rantings of the New York Times and Washington Post on
the subject, many in the "Third World" don't want our "economic help."
>From what I've seen in The Philippines, more are starving, because of
our help, than would without "economic development." The people there
were better off before a "cash based" economy was thrust upon them -
many of the people there know this. Now, while they get poisoned,
they watch as their wells dry-up, the fish die off, the forests get
cut down (and exported) while all the while the price of food
continues to climb; but they can buy a TV - PROGRESS!
-g
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"There is an old anti-intellectual joke, first related by Plato (!)
about the still-earlier Greek philosopher Thales who fell into a ditch
while walking through a field because he was too busy staring up at
the heavens to notice what was under his feet."
-Al Horowitz
from the introduction to
Fred Reinfeld's THE SECRET
OF TACTICAL CHESS
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