From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:54:04 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
>
>> In context you could only have meant valuable=paid more, unless you
>> were playing word games.
>
>Just as Doctors without Borders could only have meant an organization,
>and not the people within it.
>
>I don't need to play word games, but if I'm drawn into one, I win.

Where were you "drawn into" a word game?

You initiate them, and you rarely win them.
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On 2 Aug 2006 08:28:19 -0700, "A Human Being"
<justahumanbeing1(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>The Reid wrote:
>> Following up to A Human Being
>>
>> >> >> If it's valuable, why aren't you better off?
>> >> >
>> >> >Why are professional basketball players paid more than teachers and
>> >> >doctors?
>> >>
>> >> Because they are more valuable.
>> >
>> >In what way is their work more useful to society than that of doctors
>> >and teachers ?
>>
>> It isn't, but we value them more.
>
>why ?

Because they are a rarity.
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:28:42 -0700, dgs <dgs1300(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>Mxsmanic wrote:
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>> Plumbing is hard work.
>
>Ice cream doesn't have any bones.

I have to use that one!
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From: JohnT on

"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
> deansgate writes:
>
>> For the average realtor, that's half a year's wage.
>
> How many hours of work does it represent?
>

780.

JohnT


From: JohnT on

"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
> deansgate writes:
>
>> Look up the median wage for a realtor and a plumber in any western
>> country, then get back to me, numbnuts.
>
> Plumbing is hard work.
>

Not really. But even if it were, why is that a problem to you?

JohnT