Re Bunster, West, and Greensboro. Isn't it time we understood that economic
determinism is primitive? Racism, sexism, religion, a country's history,
national psychology are the things that determine how we behave en masse.
The economy is the base, but no more than that.
Bill Mandel
Jerry West wrote:
> Mark Bunster wrote:
>
> Did the owner of the lunch kitchen in Greensboro say to himself, "By
> golly, it just doesn't make good capitalist SENSE to turn away business!
> Here, sit right down and have some coffee!
>
> JW reply:
>
> Perhaps he weighed the number of customers that he would gain against
> the number of customers that he would lose and made a strictly
> capitalist decision. Or maybe he figured he would lose more than his
> customers, possibly a capitalist decision depending on what he stood to
> lose.
> :)
>
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