But this, this is awesome.

- Nam June Paik

an experiment

this post is a thought experiment, and an experiment in personality integration, please forgive me if the thoughts herein are of low quality or rather unfinished...

The conditions a person lives in are a function of the prices they have been willing to pay. You like hello kitty, so you forgo that expensive meal to get the hello kitty pillow, etc. A rather venal perhaps, but concrete example. Everything has a price, because everything has a cost.
(the statement "there's no such thing as a free lunch" is a snappy, but slightly under-nuanced version of this idea)
Where people seem to go wrong and create political cleavages seems to be on their understanding of "payment".( Read more... )