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Give me liberty and give me death? (Financial Times)

Give me liberty and give me death? (Financial Times)

Posted Nov 3, 2004 22:12 UTC (Wed) by Kmaurer (guest, #12642)
In reply to: Give me liberty and give me death? (Financial Times) by iabervon
Parent article: Give me liberty and give me death? (Financial Times)

Why should taking account of the flow of money into or out of a community be limited to governments?

The flow of wealth is affected by everyones' buying decisions.


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Give me liberty and give me death? (Financial Times)

Posted Nov 4, 2004 3:19 UTC (Thu) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]

Most people have neither the time nor resources to accurately weigh up the benefits of spending money for each transaction. If you can work out a way to help people make this choice quickly (perhaps a personal/pocket barcode reader backed with a DB) you will make a big contribution to the world.

Give me liberty and give me death? (Financial Times)

Posted Nov 4, 2004 14:39 UTC (Thu) by cowbutt (guest, #25845) [Link]

Like this, you mean?

Give me liberty and give me death? (Financial Times)

Posted Nov 4, 2004 19:28 UTC (Thu) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]

Excellent, now make it easy to carry whilst shopping, in a fancy case and market it.

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