From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 02:27:54 +0800
To: Kent Crispin <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Rejecting Dialog with Government Vermin
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At 11:25 PM -0800 5/4/97, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Mon, May 05, 1997 at 12:31:12AM -0500, snow wrote:
>> Kent Crispin wrote:
>> > AP? You apparently don't have direct knowledge of this, but after a
>> > certain level of economic security has been reached economics becomes
>> > a much less important as a motivator [Maslow].
>>
>> 	Bullshit:
>>
>> 	Donald Trump. Leona Helmsley, The Kennedy Clan, etc.
>>
>> 	I would say that with economics, the _more_ you have the more
>> it motivates your life.
>
>And of course, Tim May, and John Gillmore.

Indeed, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is very much in line with what I see
all around me (and with Nietzsche's "will to power," of course).

The fact that I have spent many hours a day for almost 5 years on this and
related mailing lists, for which I've received not a dime of financial
benefit, ought to make clear that some things are more important than
making more money.

--Tim May

There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
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