[ExI] Organic foods/was Re: bees again

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 3:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Organic foods/was Re: bees again

 

spike - Milk from hormone-free cows fed on only organic crops is reeeeally pricy stuff.

 

Not to mention the $27 a pound organic grassfed steaks I saw yesterday at the farmer's market.  bilkl w

 

 

 

I see it as a good thing billW.  You noted earlier that there are people with yachts and 20 million dollar mansions and things.  At some point, you just start naturally reaching for silliness, if you have sufficient money and no inclination to support things like Effective Altruism.  Or… there is a mindset where really rich people give the amount of their income, so they don’t actually pay any taxes: a person with 100 million bucks for instance might have a realized income of 4 million bucks, so they donate all of it to a charity, such as the Clinton Foundation, and it is all deductible; no tax bill.  If you own 100 million bucks, you won’t miss 4 million for “charity.”  The mindset is they cannot give more, because it wouldn’t be tax deductible.  So they live it up on the rest.

 

OK then, imagine yourself owning a huge pile of money.  Somebody somewhere is going to offer organic grass-fed, free-range happy cows who have round-the-clock groomers and people petting them and following them around, shooing away the flies, talking nice to them, might cost 100 bucks a pound.  But hell, if you have sufficient money, it doesn’t matter whether you pay 10 bucks for the ordinary beef or 100 for pampered beef; it’s all the same, a bit of noise down there in the last three digits when you have nine of them.  

 

If you had nine digits, you might use some of it to buy goofy stuff like yachts seldom used, a house where you don’t even know how many rooms it has because you haven’t actually discovered all of them yet.  All this keeps money in circulation.  It creates jobs for construction workers, cow petters and such.

 

spike

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