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Originally Posted by Pturner
Hi Jan,
There's something about this argument I don't get. "Everything you do from the time you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night..." somebody gets a cut.
Make that many, many somebodies. The manufacturers, distributors and retailers, and their employees, lawyers, accountants, and scientists, inventors, investors, bankers, etc. all get a cut, whether for your mattress, your toothbrush, the toilet you flush, the road you drive on, the clothes you wear, the activities you're involved in, the programs you watch and on and on.
Now the Morse's were entrepreneurial enough, visionary enough, savvy enough, hard working enough to build a fabulous community like no other on earth that would also provide a need for other goods and services that they were enterprising enough to supply and for the goods and services sold by other businesses to whom they lease.
Therefore yes, the Morse's get a cut from many of your activities. They are among the many somebodies who get a cut from everything you do from the time you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night. If they didn't get their particular cuts, another supplier would.
When you think of it this way... what's the problem?
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I think what Morses get is more like a premium than a cut when it comes to retailers. I think they charge so much for rent to places like Sweet Bay and Publix that the supermarkets have to boost thier prices to make their margin.
Now I understand this and don't have a problem with it...one must expect to pay a premium for that "something extra"...in TV's case, golf cart accessability. On Thanksgiving I had to dash to SB to get a quart of whipping cream. I paid a premium for it over the cost I would have paid in Wildwood. But I dashed over the river and through the woods to SB in my golf cart. I like having a SB *inside* TV.
When I have more time I travel outside TV to get better prices on goods.
On public services, I'm sure the Morses get a cut, but that's OK too...I'm the CUSTOMER. They serve ME! They provide something I wanted and sought to obtain...and I have to expect to pay for it.