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Spread The Love (And Pay Us)
Digitus1337 writes "Wired has an article up about a new online service known as 'FunHi.' You sign up and join a community, and give your fellows gifts, but as Wired has reported, 'these are not ordinary gifts. They're purely digital: little flashing icons of cars, planes, diamond rings and other virtual representations of expensive items included in messages members send each other. And FunHi members don't seem to care that the real money they're spending on the gifts, at prices as high as $30 an item, is going straight into the company's coffers." This leaves just one question unanswered... why didn't I think of this?" It sounds like an April Fool's Joke, but then, so does online trading of Everquest loot.
Funny you say that. Under socialism, the fool and his money are forced to part. In other words, the fool doesn't even have to be persuaded. What could be "easier" than that?
For TWO dollars, I'll go away and leave you alone!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Yes, but the post was trying to imply (quite incorrectly) that capitalism somehow makes it "easier" for money to be "wasted", when exactly the opposite is true. (Who's more likely to "waste" their wealth -- he who earns it through honest work, or he who simply takes it by force?)
Whether the money was originally owned by a fool wasn't really my concern.
Speaking of real-world, where are you living? All women will do that. Don't believe me? How many women do you know that are engaged that don't have a diamond ring?
:P
My roommate just got engaged. His fiancee doesn't have a diamond engagement ring.
So there's one.
I haven't seen any other engagement rings recently, so so far I'm at 100% non-diamond.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.