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It seems like you're looking for ethical criticism of Mind the Gap, not economic criticism. I thought it was clear that the prices were just how much Romans we
by randallsquared 16y ago
It seems like you're looking for ethical criticism of Mind the Gap, not economic criticism. I thought it was clear that the prices were just how much Romans were willing to pay for the services of people of varying levels of ability, and that the detail of who was receiving payment was not really part of the argument, although it apparently distracted from the argument itself in this case.
- spacemanaki 16y agoThanks, I think you're partly right, re-writing the analogy that way does make it seem more reasonable to me. (I still think it's a bad analogy) But there were other parts of the essay I wondered about... the "Daddy model of wealth", the historical time periods and "whether you could accumulate a fortune by creating wealth has been turned on and off" ... These are ideas (like PG's about oil painting being like Lisp hacking) I just do not feel qualified to judge - they are interesting, for sure, but I can't know if they are accurate or reasonable. So I hoped someone else could point me in the right direction.