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Re: Universal Access Conversation May 4-15 - Markle Foun

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From: David Schwartz
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
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>Various people have given various arguments over time in favor of
>income/wealth redistribution.  I find some points of such arguments to
>be persuasive.  (Note: I won't choose to debate them in this forum,
>because they are not highly germane to the commercialization and
>privatization of the Internet.)

[snip]
>I'm not wiling to tell anyone else that I know better than them how to
>use their resources.  Who's to say that a year of Internet access is
>'more important' to a poor person than, say, books for their children,
>or an improved diet, or, for that matter, going to a restaurant or a
>movie from time to time?  Not me.


    Oh, God! Pete, tell me you don't see the contradiction here. I can't
believe you!

    DS
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