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In article <3panpc$c1@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> c2xrib@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (rex i beard) writes:

> >    The warm fuzzy you get from giving money to others is not transferrable,
> >and returns nothing.
> But it doesn't really consume anything does it? The $100 I give to another
> person can still be used by the other person. (But this other person may
> decide not to *produce* anything because they no longer need to.)

    It consumes YOUR money.  (^_^)

> >    But it is - since that person is MAKING money, not TAKING it.
> But are they producing something more valuable than what they *use*
> to be producing? Remember, they can't do both.

    The unwritten assumption here is that the job would be occupied by someone
now receiving Welfare payments... producing nothing.

> How! Without the 100 people on my floor of this building GM couldn't
> build cars. If all these people worked for NASA they wouldn't work
> for Delco.

    No - somebody ELSE would work for Delco... just not you.  (^_-)

    If I quit my job tomorrow in order to pursue other ventures, that does not
mean that the position I occupied is unnecessary.  Very shortly, it will be
filled by someone who wants to do what I did before.

> But you HAVE to wait for auto-makers to build them. That's what "auto-maker"
> means - people who build autos.

    Auto makers right now seem to be more concerned about adding bells and
whistles, not making radical design changes.  Auto manufacturers did not look
into electric cars until a California bylaw threatened to cut them off at the
knees.  (^_-)

> So the U.S can increase spending and taxes by $585 billion dollars and
> funnel it to research while the rest of the world builds better
> cars with the knowledge gained from NASA research? Because there won't

    Sure.  It's called 'selling Technology'.  We do the research, sell the
knowledge to other countries (several times over, thus making up what was
invested), and let them innovate with it.

> I was asking you to put a value on the contributions and then tally
> up how much NASA costs. The problem is no value was ever placed on
> those contributions. And the mechanism for assigning value, the free market,
> was not used.

    True enough.  (^_^)  Statement withdrawn.

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