My feeling on that is fairly deep, but interesting.
That is exactly how I felt until I spent a whole day helping with a search for a lost child. I didn't notice my ATV gas tank was dead empty. I walked 2 miles of trail in the dark to the closest house. He charged me $50 for about 3 gallons of gas that was probably in the can for years, and I had to carry it all the way back to my ATV. Was I willing to pay? Yes. Was it right? F No. (and my ATV ran like s--- until I paid for a full gas line and injector replacement)
That bothered me to the point that I started looking into the roots of capitalism. I found that it was highly based on Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". From just that, you can conclude "what's it worth to someone else?". The problem with that is that it's incomplete. That book is not meant to be read alone. You are also supposed to read Adam Smith's "The Theory of Moral Sentiment", which levels out the "greed", and "opportunism" out of capitalist transaction. If you combine making some money with moral sentiments, you have pure Americanism, what every soldier is fighting for, and too often, lays down their lives for.
If you saw the generosity that goes on in our, closed to the public, America Legion meetings every month, you would completely understand my feelings. People barely getting by finding ways to help people in worse shape, gets to you in ways that lead to this...getting irk'd by a small and simple ( and probably irrelevant) opportunistic transaction in an AT4 forum.
Sorry for interjecting, but this old right-winger veteran feels bad for people I don't even know. I've seen some horrible things in my life. I haven't slept right in decades. I don't mean either of you ill-will.
. Certain things I don't advise cutting corners on, but each his own.
just saying!
