At 8:22 AM -0700 9/6/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>I actually have a friend, my kids' godfather, a very fine graphic artist, many of whose original works I have in my home, who is to all appearances totally disconnected from commerce. He lives on SSI disability, before that, was an office mgr for a commie bookstore in Detroit and before that for the IWW. I have "paid" him for most of the things I have of his, but mainly to spare him embarassment at giving him gifts of money that he has needed for particular things, chiefly medicare care. What I have paid him must be a small fraction of the value of the work rated objectively, but he wouldn't take more than he needed at a time. jks