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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Good Cents, post: 5184988, member: 100720&quot;]Everybody can figure out how to do everything from scratch. But if everyone had to figure everything out for themselves, we&#039;d all be dead because no one human being has enough time to figure everything out for themselves. If you had to figure out from scratch how to build the computer or phone you are using to write on this blog, and figure out how to build the car you drive from scratch, and figure out how to build the domain you live in from scratch, and how to grow and harvest each of the food items you eat from scratch, you would be spending every waking moment of your life trying to figure it all out.</p><p><br /></p><p>We all rely on each other and on each other&#039;s knowledge in one way or another whether we like it or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you drive a car that you didn&#039;t make yourself you didn&#039;t figure it out from scratch, you paid someone to figure it out for you and get the metal from the ground and mold the pieces and parts and put them all together in a specific way so that you can have a car that works.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless you grow all your own food and keep your own farm animals for food, and grow your own spices, and even get your own salt from the sea, you rely on others and their knowledge. Even if you keep your own farm animals, unless you reared them yourself after finding them in the wild, you relied on the knowledge of the one who you bought them from.</p><p><br /></p><p>No man is truly an island. And sharing information is how we survive. Often we pay for information because people spend all day, every working day to learn and expand upon that information and so we pay every person who spends their days in pursuit of the information we need to make the things in our life work. We pay Ford or Chevrolet who pays the engineers working for them who work out all the information to create all the pieces and parts needed to put our cars together in all the intricate ways that it requires.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same goes for everything in the world we pay for. People spend lots of time putting all the information together to get to the finished product of every single thing we use in our lives.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if you want me to pay you for the information you have, I would. But to withhold it because someone can technically figure it out for themselves. Well, it&#039;s a good thing everyone else isn&#039;t demanding that of you, or you wouldn&#039;t be driving in or riding in any modern vehicle with 4 rubber wheels and a motor, or using a computer, or a telephone (cell or landline) or turning on the lights or eating every food you&#039;ve ever had the pleasure to eat.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t mean to sound angry, and I apologize if I do. I&#039;m not angry, I&#039;m just frustrated with the reasoning. I also believe in us helping each other in every way possible. As a matter of fact, if I had to narrow down my life ideals to only one it would be that the greatest thing we can do in this world is to help another human being. So it just boggles my mind when I come across people who think, feel and act the opposite. I hope at the very least you find joy or meaning in your ideals of withholding knowledge that could help another person, because nobody else will be finding joy or meaning from them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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