Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!fagin From: fagin@ucbvax.ARPA (Barry Steven Fagin) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: money is its own reward Message-ID: <5234@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 21:22:20 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5234 Posted: Mon Mar 4 21:22:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 03:34:15 EST References: <679@ccice5.UUCP> <8274@watarts.UUCP> <787@topaz.ARPA> <976@gloria.UUCP> Reply-To: fagin@ucbvax.UUCP (Barry Steven Fagin) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 21 Summary: In article <976@gloria.UUCP> colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes: >> In a free market, the amount of money you make corresponds directly >> to the excess in value of the services you have performed that others >> wanted, over those they have done that you wanted. In other words, >> how much unrequited good you have done. Some people would consider >> that rewarding. > >A friend of mine who's a pimp says he agrees with that. >-- >Col. G. L. Sicherman >...decvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel Good thing prostitution is illegal, so that pimps can earn a good living acting as intermediaries between hookers and their potentially embarassed clients. After all, in places where prostitution is legal (Nevada, parts of Europe), there are no pimps. --Barry -- Barry Fagin @ University of California, Berkeley