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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Overlooked contributions of the rich
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:34:23 EST
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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