Re: losers [ was: Lyndie England
Dick Grippon wrote:
You can’t have a socially stratified society without the same mechanism at work, one which limits rewards to the deserving and punishes the losers. Rewards — the good life — must be scarce to have any value. Stratified societies produce scarcity.
And positional goods. Half the pleasure of owning a Patek Philippe is that all those other losers are wearing Timexes.
Doug