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Subject: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
Original Message Date: 02-Oct-02 @ 08:39 PM - Would YOU sell a track to POP?
Screw politics, religion and other coffee house banter... Here's one to really get your feet muddy.
Would you sell a track to Britney, Christina N'Sync et al... ???
Come on kids, fess up. $50,000 for a 5 minute fluff number filled with "Philly Hits" and one note bass lines...
e
Message 51/73 31-Oct-02 @ 01:55 AM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
Message 52/73 31-Oct-02 @ 02:17 AM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
but its the $2000 chair that gets me. So incredibly unnecessary yet people think they need this sort of shit...
its a vicious cycle. spend more, need more, spend more...and it just keeps goin on and on and on
Message 53/73 31-Oct-02 @ 09:40 AM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
I'm sure nearly everything I spend money on looks like mindless self-indulgence to someone in the third world who's watching his family starve to death...
Message 54/73 31-Oct-02 @ 10:00 AM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
but...gluttony is not relative. it is clearly evident when present, no?
Message 56/73 31-Oct-02 @ 07:46 PM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
Message 57/73 31-Oct-02 @ 08:06 PM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
And to a family that is concerned about where food is coming from tomorrow, the free time we have to post conjecture about them is obscene!! But we do have it, it's a luxury and we should be thankful for it! But it is relative. The $2000 chair in and of itself is just a chair. If you've sold your ideals, and notions of right and wrong! Acted out of character for the sake of a $2000 chair... well i'd call that gluttony. If yuo act out of character for a head of lettuce to feed your children, I'd call it necessity!
Is the $2000 chair gluttonous at Bill Gates' house? Not really... He is obscenely wealthy, but he also see's his wealth as a responsibilty! His Gates Foundation Doles out a billion dollars a year! Now, he still lives quite comfortably, and perhaps he simply has a case of Noblesse Oblige... but if he were on equal financial footing with the rest of us, where do you suppose that Billion dollars would otherwise be going?
e
Message 58/73 31-Oct-02 @ 09:04 PM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
Message 59/73 31-Oct-02 @ 09:16 PM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
we're definitely spoiled here, but not everything that is above the "bare necessities" is gluttony
best to look up the definition first. and yes, it is clearly visible when observed
Message 60/73 31-Oct-02 @ 09:52 PM - RE: Would YOU sell a track to POP?
glut·ton·y
Excess in eating or drinking.
So yes, I guess there is an easily defined threshold of gluttony, which is that which goes beyond what is necessary to maintain your health.
I think most Americans, even the thin healthy ones, probably do this on a regular basis. People are out of touch with their bodies' needs.
psylichon
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