[MR] Membership and its affects.

[David W. James]

On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 09:35 PM, Rick Steeves wrote:
> Corporations cost money to run. Some of those costs are fixed (or 
> reasonably so). Therefore, the more people who ARE members, the less 
> the financial burden on each individual member. And any "profits" the 
> corporation turns to stay afloat, and build a reserve, can be a lower 
> percentage if there are more members involved.

	It's a lovely theory, but the Corporation (not "the Board") has been 
(and likely will continue to) losing money on every person who sends 
them a membership form!  The NMS is intended to make up for that gap.  
Encourage everyone to subscribe and the corporation will actually start 
to lose money again, and find themselves in another fiscal crisis...

	So if you really want to fund the corporation once the NMS goes into 
effect, *don't* become a member!

	If you want to protest the corporation's actions in a way that hurts 
the corporate bottom line, send them money!

Logic is so much fun.

David/Kwellend-Njal