Reply to Ted and Brad

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 4 07:52:26 PDT 2001


Brad DeLong wrote:


>I'm willing to assert that watching your children starve is more
>painful to you than eating grilled Hoffman Farm chicken breast with
>pancetta, garlicky chard, and sweet corn polenta is pleasurable to
>me...

But how much more do some diners enjoy the grilled Hoffman Farm chicken breast etc. because of the knowledge that others are, if not starving, dining on beans and rice?

Doug



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list