> what makes it special, to call it a commodity only if it is paid for with
> money? i mean, what's at stake?
I thought I answered that in the previous post – that when you have a commodity to sell, you can demand that people pay you if they want the commodity. When you don’t you can’t.
> of course, you can say all this is about competitive individualism, and it
> will all go away in the socialist future. this is Carrol's answer. Few
> people ever accept his answer. Perhaps you do?
But isn't it you who is invoking a shift in attitudes to solve the problem - that people stop seeing free stuff as free? Whereas Gar, Julio and I have been talking institutions?
Mike Beggs