[geeks] Well, crap ...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:33:43 +0200
"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:27:02AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > I've always felt money becomes somewhat meaningless when you get to the
> > point where it's accumulating faster than you can possibly spend it.
> > But maybe that's an issue of finding worthy things to spend it on.
> > (Funding development of private-sector spaceflight, say, or funding
> > water-desalination plants in places where fresh water is desperately
> > needed.)
> 
> The problem is that people don't think that way. When they get to the
> point that they can live comfortably, they turn it up a notch. If they
> eat little meat, they want more meat. If they eat hamburgers, they want
> steak, If they eat steak, they want filet mignon, and so on. 

I guess that makes me a wierdo: I generally only want things I can use.

I've never quite understood the point of having something if you can't have
fun with it.

(collections and museums, which serve a useful purpose, excluded of course)

-- 
shannon           | We have nothing to prove.
                  |        -- Alan Dawkins