Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was a hell of a lot wealthier *before* I bought Leicas. At 10:38 PM 8/25/2002 +0200, you wrote: >You are making an implicit assumption that people who own Leicas are >wealthy. Of >course, everything is relative, but I can assure you that some of us have >had to >make significant sacrifices in terms of rearranging our priorities in order to >afford our Leicas. For example, I drive boring, cheap cars but have a >Leica M7, >M6 and R8--because my photography is more important to me than my wheels. >By no >means am I independently wealthy or anywhere close to it. > >This does not mean that I would rip anyone off, BTW. As recent corporate >scandals have shown, the propensity to rip other people off appears to be >quite >unrelated to one's income. > >Nathan > >faneuil wrote: > > > I think we are all ignoring the elephant in the drawing room. > > The Leica realm is pretty darn rarified. > > If you are here - chances are pretty good that you don't need to rip anyone > > off. > > > > Eric > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch >mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > >Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm >General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html