12-14-2005, 09:00 AM
Occhidiangela,Dec 13 2005, 10:05 PM Wrote:Snort, good effort on the joke, :D but it isn't theft. Sales of junk for money is applying PT Barnum's maxim to its fullest: there is a sucker born every minute, and two to take him.
Whoever spent the money on Spears' stuff was either happy with the purchase (rubes IMO) or was dumb enough to be sheared by any huckster. :P
Did you ever read Fritz Lieber's "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" stories? There was a good story in one of the early collections wholse plot lampooned the selling of junk advertised as treasure. I think the evil monsters were called Consumers or something like that.
Occhi
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I fully agree Occhi, but I don't like it. I know why these things go as they go, but for me a healthy economic system does not contain these kind of things. 1 artist, 10 commercials experts, 10 managers etc. etc., just to sell CDs.