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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: OT: 'profit motive' - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:27:05
Message-Id: 53077D8A.3070402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: OT: 'profit motive' - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie by Tanstaafl
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4 Tanstaafl:
5 > On 2014-02-21 10:28 AM, Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:03:47 -0500 Tanstaafl
7 >> <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
8 >>
9 >>> On 2014-02-21 8:54 AM, Daniel Campbell <lists@××××××××.us>
10 >>> wrote:
11 >>>> If you think all profit is the same, then we are talking on
12 >>>> two different wavelengths.
13 >>>
14 >>> I didn't say that. I said that *everyone* operates under the
15 >>> profit motive.
16 >>
17 >> And that is simply not true.
18 >
19 > Yes, it is, but you may be confused about the meaning of 'profit'.
20 >
21 > Even someone who volunteers in the local soup kitchen feeding the
22 > homeless is doing so under the profit motive. The things is, the
23 > 'profit' involved (may) only involve(s) a 'warm fuzzy good
24 > feeling'.
25 >
26 > If you read my previous words, I said it wasn't always (though I
27 > think it is usually) some kind of 'financial' profit.
28 >
29
30 You didn't say it, but it feels like you are talking about "personal
31 profit". If not, then your definition of "profit" is so broad, that it
32 is almost meaningless.
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