> I don't see how all this machination achieves its goal; it just seems like a
> communist way (from each according to his means...) way of everyone getting
> good shocks, rather than paying for their own.
It's not Communistic, but rather, charitable in a capitalist way --
the supplier of the shocks does so voluntarily, to achieve a benefit
for himself. He can stop selling used shocks at discount at any time
that he feels that it is no longer a benefit.
Yes, it would be annoying to swap the same set of shocks backs and
forth at every event between the class leaders. With luck, one of
them will become fed up with the practice, get a clue, and sell the
shocks on eBay, showing up at the next event with more reasonably
priced shocks.
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john@idsfa.net John Stimson
http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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