Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Overlooked contributions of the rich Message-ID: <5183@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:34:23 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5183 Posted: Thu Mar 7 09:34:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:34:23 EST References: <356@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 21 Actually, the casino model is useful in discovering how people think. ``Deserve'' is an interesting word. Richard Carnes claims that noone in theri right mind would claim that the winners in a casino game deserved to win or the losers deserved to lose. I guess I must not be in my right mind then, because I would assume that everybody who goes into a casino deserves what they get -- whatever that is, assuming that both the House and the players are not cheating. I assume that *everybody* deserves what they get until I can see some evidence of coercion -- fraud included. This does not appear to be what Richard Carnes does. I think that another area where Richard Carnes is going to disagree with most libertarians is that he either a) thinks that thinking is not labour or b) thinks that there is no thinking involved in managing wealth. It is actually quite easy to lose lots of money, especially since there is no shortage of people with hairbrained schemes who want you to invest in them. Laura Creighton utzoo!laura