>>My "Oh boy" comment was in response to Rick changing the subject
>>to exhorting me to go out and volunteer, do good works for mankind,
>>and so on. That came out of left field and had nothing to do with the
>>discussion.
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>Instead of our lives being solely about the pursuit of money, go out and do
>something to help people directly. Use your hands on a hammer and a nail
>rather than rewriting a new algorithm someone else wrote last week but is
>now hoarding. Such free time would be made available by sharing.
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>The model of giving away your work mandates that we have a new economic
>model not related to money, but rather to gifts of works.
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>Ie... It is a God-centered, God-focused model of love ... and not capitalism.

Rick, I don't know who you think you are preaching to here. I have done lots and lots of volunteer work. In fact I am newly involved with another one, a food bank in northern Illinois. So please don't preach at people indiscriminately.

Good luck with that new economic model thing. Also, as someone (Victor? Hugo?) already said, they are not mutually exclusive. One can make a living and also do good works.