Digital BW, The Print

I'm jury-reading a book for a publisher on US/UK 'globalisation/terrorism'
and I'm at the stage where I'm checking the 'facts' and I'm getting so damn
depressed! BTW Paul, 'the world' cannot force the US to do anything, so I
wouldn't worry. Although epson 7000s are cheaper here than in the US! All we
need now is a european ink manufacturer offering quality stuff - hmmm a gap
in the market??

Julian
!----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
To: "DigitalB&WPrint" <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Epson Printers bigger than A3 -- ramblings


> Julian wrote:
>
> >People don't want to pay US prices!
> >We don't have the US disposable income ...
>
> Neither do we -- even though our acting like we have more than enough is a
> big part of what drives the U.S. economy, causes the huge trade deficit,
> etc.  Have you ever seen a candle burning in an enclosed bottle?  What
> happens in the end?   ;-)
>
> Seriously, though, in other photo and many other product markets one does
> see that there are more "high demanders" over here.  Look at the Mamiya 7
> prices -- US (B&H) v. UK (Robert White).  The extent to which sellers can
> take advantage of this to make more money depends, in large part, on the
> level of competition within the market and the barriers to entry into that
> market.
>
> (One of my little victories in a previous life was to stop a proposal that
> got up the cabinet level and would have limited the gray market in the US
> even more than is now the case.)
>
> > You guys have been living in the land of milk and honey
>
> And those products and that lifestyle give us a very high heart attack
rate
> ....  Seriously, although I think material wealth is relevant to
happiness,
> it has very significantly decreasing marginal utility after a point.
>
> > with 50% of the world's wealth ...
>
> No, that was before Enron.
>
> Surveys of happiness find a larger correlation between happiness and a
> person's relative standing in their culture, than between happiness and
some
> absolute measure of financial wealth.
>
> I remember hearing an analysis of the old Los Angeles Watt's riots that
> noted the people were happier (and thus not rioting) before they all had
> color TVs.
>
> While on an Indian reservation project, I ran into the local saying, "I
> didn't know what poverty was until I left the reservation."  (This can be
> taken a number of ways.)  The only problem an old Indian Medicine Man had
> was that he could not find a young Indian to take over his practice, and
he
> wanted to retire.
>
> I wonder what the US wealth and lifestyle will look like after the world
> forces us to live within our allotment of CO2 emissions?  (I'm going to
buy
> stock in an SUV re-cycling company.)
>
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
>
>
>
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