New Economy rant

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 26 10:05:46 PDT 2000


kelley wrote:


>i rather got the impression that you were suggesting that it would
>be fine and dandy if folks wanted to wear a swoosh on the teeshirt
>but that paying $40 to wear the swoosh when it costs $5 to produce
>the swoosh and that it could be sold at $15 for a reasonable profit
>is b.s. that $25 is money that might be more productively spent.
>instead, it goes directly into the coffers of those who pocket the
>profits who don't necessarily reinvest that money in productive
>ways. the point is that the swoosh has to cost that much to obtain,
>for otherwise it wouldn't be as valuable.

Yeah, exactly.

Doug



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