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

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