Quote from: cacoethes on April 05, 2012, 01:35 pmQuote from: SuperDimitri on April 03, 2012, 09:38 pmHhhmmm, well, you ever tried your hand at professional online vending? I would say that 90% of these vendors ARE god/goddess-like. They risk their entire life and freedom for us. They work so hard, it would make your fucking head spin. It's much different than sitting in your house and selling little bags of weed, or other drugs. These people sit on HUGE quantities. Just imagine that your day went like theirs: Wake up, take shower, eat. Put on gloves, start weighing out hundreds of packages, seal, seal again, maybe even again, take the time to go through HUNDREDS of messages, ON TOR, a bit slower, right? Then print all those addresses, stick them on, seal the box/envelope, add stamps, drive to a blue box to make the drop. That's "in a nutshell". Imagine if you had 100+ orders to fulfill per day, and had to go through all these steps for your, and our security. You know vac sealers are slow, printers are slow, sticking on labels is slow. It's fucking WORK.This isn't street level drug dealing. And I find you ungrateful. I am curious which vendors you have been ungrateful to, now. It's not even close to being comparable to someone picking up a fucking pen for me. Seriously?!? If you saw how my last order came, maybe you'd be more appreciative of the time, money, and work that goes into vending. Can't wait to see some vendors sound off here! Thanks for assuming I have a lack of self-worth, because I find what these people do to be awe inspiring.I'd wager a lot of coin that the vast majority (the 99% ?), if not all, of the vendors here set up shop to make money, not because of some sense of higher purpose/learned principle.Not that the two are mutually exclusive... But c'mon.I appreciate the hell out of the service and product that I get from my favorite vendors, but I am under no illusion about why they're here, and I'm not going to put them on a pedestal because they're taking action based on profit motive.This is a business! A very lucrative business for some vendors, and the creators of Silk Road. While it may also be visionary and revolutionary in scope, it is still a vehicle for profit, first and foremost.the true revolutions have always come from the profit motive - the printing press, automobiles, instant world-wide communication, etc. It is the highest order to pursue profit through mutual and voluntary trade, since you have to become a benefactor to society in order to succeed (barring the state, which people co-opt for rent-seeking and take a ride on its violence).