Re: [ox-en] Maussian ideas and Free Software
- From: Martin Hardie <auskadi tvcabo.co.mz>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:24:45 +0200
On Saturday 13 December 2003 11:11, Niall Douglas wrote:
* Money spent on third world pharmaceutical drugs is far better spent
on providing clean drinking water and decent nutrition. I know it's
trendy to bash big business for cynical sales, but in the end far
more lives are saved by forgetting about pharmaceutical drugs.
Well Niall sorry
40 million dying of aids.THe street outside where I type covered with people
begging and with aids, the WHO will give 3 million of this 40 million free
drugs in the next 5 years. In the emantime how many die. Two kilomters from
here near the Toll Gate for the Soth african constructed and run tollway
there is avtap that services a few thousand people.
Money is better spent on third world pharmaceutical drugs AND on providing
clean drinking water and decent nutrition RATHER than buying software.
About Mauss.
Wher is the orignal in this thread. Is this more gift economy? A Eurpean
Colonial rascist way to classify and demystify power in indigenous societies?
Back to work here
Martin
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