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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (28600)	2/9/2003 6:33:27 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

You can find free range stuff in lot of areas of the US BTW.. not that it would be as good as your stuff, but it IS catching on. Buffalo meat is popular in some areas... DAK

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (28600)	2/9/2003 7:25:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

XYZ, it's the case that I have still spent more of my life being a servant than being served, so I can speak authoritatively from both points of view. I have also had quite a wide range of jobs so have a quite good diversity of experience as a servant. I have not felt enslaved in any job. I always had a choice on where to work. Some jobs were very unpleasant. Happiness is a function of attitude more than anything, even in jobs which most people would find frightening, filthy or otherwise nasty. Those who are unhappy are those with a sense of entitlement. They don't think they should have to do what other people want done to get their thieving hands on other people's money. Those who enjoy doing things for other people and enjoy the appreciation are happy. When I was serving people in a restaurant, I didn't think I was a sad-sack have-not. I thought of myself as a happy now-getting. The emanation of happiness is an interchange. Some customers are just misery-guts people and there's only so far you can go to improve their lives. Others are good blokes who enjoy the service and pass on appreciation, which gets them feedback which makes their lives happy too. More important than the money changing hands is the good vibes which are exchanged. Having spent a lot of time figuring out what makes sales work, I think that people go shopping not for the material goods but to get the good vibes. Of course they want the goods too, but the addition of the good vibes is what makes it tick. That's why good sales people do spectacularly better than those who think, mistakenly, that their job is to move stock to suckers - sort of like fleecing sheep. The current state of food quality shows the dominant attitude of producers. They aren't proud of what they are doing - they are just fleecing suckers with a shiny, large, tasteless apple or lip-ripping kiwifruit. There's a vast business opportunity for good quality food. There are the occasional suppliers who understand this, but they are few and far between. Their stores are usually very busy, especially if they are not greedy and are also passing on good value to their customers - not just trying to rip off the premium market. Overall, I'd say I've been as happy providing service as receiving it. Not in all jobs - some of them left me little room to be self-determining in how I did the job and for how long etc. But plenty of them were fun. Now I'd pay to be able to do some of my old jobs. The whole business about willing buyer and seller is the central issue in human affairs. We are in transition from the old dominance hierarchy confiscatory tribal systems to one of peace, light, harmony, happiness, prosperity, longevity and love where people are self-actualizing. Not many people have escaped the old-style yet. A bit of Colinisation is about to free many millions in Iraq and probably North Korea from the old style total repression. Mqurice