RE: Tierred pricing (was Tiger tools...)

[Mark Allen <allenmark@xxxxxxxx>]

Actually there are two of us

Mark Allen
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:From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
:[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Dan Bale
:Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:58 AM
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:Subject: RE: Tierred pricing (was Tiger tools...)
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:I'm sorry...  Wazzat?  A libertarian in Georgia?  You must be
:a pretty lonely guy, Carl!  <GD&R>
:- Dan Bale
:  Carl Galgano <cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com> wrote: David:
:With all due respect...
:Your model is the basis of socialism. Give according to your
:ability, take according to your need. I am not sure if you are
:in the US, but in my
:(never) humble opinion, this is the same crap that has our
:ridiculous tax system in place. You make more, you pay more.
:Not just more based on a flat percentage, but a higher
:percentage at that! How is that fair? How does that encourage
:new ideas and achievement? It discourages achievement when you
:can look at someone who working less and being a less
:productive member of society, and they receive the same (if
:not more) benefits of society. I pay through the ass for my
:health insurance, have a 5K deductible to keep in
:"reasonable", and there are plenty of Americans who pay
:nothing for health insurance and go to the emergency room
:every time they have a damn hang nail. My insurance requires
:me to be more frugal (read: not reckless) with my health care
:and perceived need. My church/kids school is now underway to
:build a new building that we need. My plan would be to take
:the cost of the project, divide it by the number of families
:and that is the amount each family is responsible for raising.
:But of course, I am being hounded to contribute more and more
:and more. Will I get more benefit than other families,
:probably not. I am asked for more only because it is perceived
:that I have more. The argument is: I must not need the money
:as much. Pure poppy cock. I am tired of being made to feel
:guilty for achievement and the dumb masses (say that fast)
:feeling like they are entitled to something for nothing, ride
:on the back of MY hard work.
:
:Software pricing should be based on some model that makes
:sense. In my past example for IBM Comm utilities (CM1). I
:should pay 30K to support 1 stinking connection? Maybe a limit
:to the number of connections that can be configured might be a
:more fair way to price that software. some software makes
:sense to charge per seat, or per user. No model fits all. But
:the argument that you pay more because you can afford more is
:utterly ridiculous. Frankly, I do not care if the poorest
:nation can afford the newest drugs.... what incentive does
:that give the poorest nations to do what it takes (work,
:achievement, etc) to remove themselves from the poorest nations list?
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:I haven't been this fired up since the thread about Ayn Rynd
:and Atlas Shrugged. Carl (I guess you can tell I am a libertarian)
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