Lawrence Krubner

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• July 18, 2001: The next really big thing
• July 31, 2002: Response to The next really big thing

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• June 26, 2001, on Rich People:

  I was at a party a few weeks ago. There was a man there who said money caused happiness. I liked him because he was expressing an unpopular opinion and he did it well. The whole rest of the room was against him, maybe 16 people. They were all clamouring for the chance to tell him how wrong he was. He stuck by his guns. I stayed silent the whole time. As I often do, I listened and remembered but didn't speak. I like to remember how people are at different times, how the mood of crowds changes from year to year, decade to decade. There was something all wrong about that scene. 16 people claiming money doesn't bring happiness and just one person claiming that it does. Is this representitive of America? Did I stumble by accident into a nest of socialists, or enlightened spiritualists? A whole cabal of them, and just one man of ignorance? My own feeling is that most people in America love money, crave it, and do, in their hearts, believe that it brings happiness. But no one is allowe...

• July 31, 2002, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:

  There is a difference between law and moral rightness. The courts are there to enforce the law, not to decide what is morally right. The moral rightness of a law is best worked out in debates in the legislature, before the law is created. The judicial branch is not there to decide what is moral, only what is law. The conversation about Microsoft often turns on what is morally right. I hear comments like, "Microsoft just did what any company would do to compete." The implication is that Microsoft was within moral bounds, because they played by the rules that every other American company plays by. What Microsoft has done may or may not be moral. However, that is irrelevant. Companies get dragged into court for breaking the law, not for breaking the moral code. This is the current law in America: it is legal to have a monopoly, it is not legal to use it to increase your profits. Regarding competition, America has 2 sets of laws. One applies to non-monopoly companies. The other...