Re: Wearing your conscience.

From: Ian St. John (istjohn_at_noemail.usa)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:39:38 -0500

royls@telus.net wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:24:44 GMT, Peter Lawrence
> <peterl@netlink.com.au> wrote:
>
>> At one level all change is for the worse, because of transition
>> costs.
>
> That is Peter's mantra: the status quo has no costs, only transitions
> have any costs.

No. That is a fact of life. The status quo will have a fairly set cost, both
before and after, but any change will usually reasult in an ADDITIONAL cost
to pay for the change. Change takes money. It is rarely free.

Still stupid after all these years, eh Roy?

>
> -- Roy L

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