From: J. Michael Rowland (rowley_at_quepaso.net)
Date: 03/20/00
Message-Id: <200003201817.SAA17792@mail.telalink.net> Subject: Re: ball connection Date: Mon, 20 Mar 00 12:00:14 -0600 From: "J. Michael Rowland" <rowley_at_quepaso.net>
Pat wrote:
> A good portion of this exercise is basic wealth-redistribution,
> but not in the sense that everyone expects. People think that
> those who want to make profit are heartless and cruel. They feel
> that government taxation is the only way to assure that "those
> rich folks" are made to pay up. But I think that if we properly
> meet the needs of those rich people, in ways that others simply
> can't with their standard housing/living technologies, we stand a
> good chance of getting their business. And make no mistake, rich
> people are often willing to spend HANDSOMELY in order to get
> what they want. (Witness that $8.4 million house...)
This is one of the best things I've read in an email list in a long time.
I agree, and this is part of the reason why we set up the Dome Group...
which, as yet, is still just an idea, with very little in practice
(besides the Web site).
jmr
www.domegroup.org