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Subject: Passing the Hat and Support
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Barony of Carolingia)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 17:58:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Solveig Throndardottir <bnostran@lynx.dac.neu.edu>
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Noble Cousins!

If I had an industrial job and was living in the EK, then I would have
dropped $500.00 in the pot at Birka .. does this indicate popular
support?  No it does not!  It just indicates the kind of money that
I can make in industry.  (Or at least used to be able to make.)
Non-monetary contributions are much more important (see Duke Cariadoc's
arguments on this subject) in our society than monetary ones are.

					Your Humble Servant
					Solveig Throndardottir
					Totally Ignorant