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[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Perhaps the reply to "how can something without monetary value be worth
> anything" should involve something about the worth/value of their
> opinion, given it too has no monetary value.  For that matter, does the
> right to vote, the right to freedom, etc have no worth?  They have no
> monetary value either.  Perhaps some people involved with marketing really
> have no clue about anything but money.

You're spot on.  I would also have loved to point out that most human 
societies were based on economies fundamentally different from ours, in 
which "money" was not a meaningful concept.  As I understand it,
anthropologists suspect that many (most?) ancient societies were gift 
economies.

Cheers,

Rob

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