Life has become a Kurt Vonnegut novel.

When good institutions go bad.

The last few weeks have seen a dismaying upturn in the number of semi-public institutions which seem to out to make a buck rather than a contribution, risking the contributions they've alread made.

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The larger problem this illustrates isn't the greedy nature of everyone, but rather the difficulties of trust in a world where organizations are underfunded and expected to scramble for dollars. Building organizations which are intended to promote the sharing of resources requires an independent source of funds. Otherwise, organizations will end up placing tolls on their results, impeding the very sharing they were set up to create.

[O'Reilly Network - Simon St. Laurent]

Next week, I fully expect that Kilgore Trout will sue The New York Times, AOL-Time Warner, and CNN, asserting that he owns the patent rights to language.

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