[extropy-chat] A nickel and dime economy?

[Alfio Puglisi]

That's assuming that the $.25 is going to you, not to the door
manufacturer. If I remember correctly, you had to pay your own door to get
out the house, or maybe in. So if you spent your last quarter at the bar,
your home heating will be fine, but you'll suffer the cold anyway :-)

In Douglas Adams' books, instead, doors are so happy to help humans that
they loudly express their satisfaction every time they (automatically, of
course) open for you. Actually I'm not sure of what's worse.

Alfio

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Kevin Freels wrote:

>Now that depends on the actual cost of opening the door though, doesn't it?
>If I lost $.50 of heating cost every time someone opened my door, I might
>well want to charge $.25. Especially if people that frequently open the door
>have no real reason to do so over and over again. :-)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alfio Puglisi" <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it>
>To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:31 AM
>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] A nickel and dime economy?
>
>
>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Kevin Freels wrote:
>>
>> >I was wondering if anyone had followed this through
>> >to the future. Does anyone here see a possible future
>> >where nearly everything is fee based?
>>
>> There's some Philip Dick novel out there where all doors require $0.25 to
>> open. Not really the best place to live :-)
>>
>> Alfio
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