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To: Tom Pulley who wrote (3162)	4/22/2001 7:16:30 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

Hi Tom, What, is there something wrong with 10% of the local population owning 80% of the local economy? <g> When starting on your second paragraph, I thought, this Tom guy is describing all of us, and then I came to the end of the post. You are not wrong. The attention span and OOTB is being emulated worldwide, courtesy of CNN International. I think we are in trouble :) Chugs, Jay

To: Tom Pulley who wrote (3162)	4/22/2001 7:49:26 PM
From: tradermike_1999	Respond to of 74559

Fortunately, here in the U.S. we have one advantage over all other countries.....a high percentage of population with attention deficit disorder. You probably think I'm nuts, but these are people who tend to have very high IQ's,can look at life from a different angle and thereby think far out of the box, could care less about fitting in, and want to work wee hours into the night on some wierd subject that no one else is interested in. My guess is that many on SI fit this description (g). Its called the postmodern bug. During the industrial revolution children got black lung from working in coal mines or else cotton lung from working in the textile plant. Now they get the postmodern bug - a function of seeing too many images on the teletube and computer screen.

To: Tom Pulley who wrote (3162)	4/22/2001 9:33:35 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

Hi Tom, additional thought after arriving in office. <<Around the world, the Chinese quite often are the business owners and also in general seem to be bright and hard working>> I believe the 55 mm overseas Chinese, if treated as a nation, has a GDP greater than that of Mainland China, with its 1.3 bb folks. The savings pool of the 55 mm also more than the 1.3 bb. Now, Nasdaq i.com e.net everyone buying one tooth brush math would indicate, if another 55 mm were to get out of China, to, say all over the world, but not via trip in containers, the world GDP by 2.5-3%% within a short period. Not bad return in exchange for some airplane tickets and passports. [EDIT: rough math, PRC GDP is between 1/10 to 1/8 of USA, not adjusted for purchasing parity, and US GDP is about 1/5 to 1/4 of world GDP] However, I can perfectly understand why there may be some political opposition to such a goosing of GDP growth rate <GGG> Chugs, Jay, getting back to work, but having not much to do today through May 8th, thus looking for amusement and may find it on the busy streets below.

To: Tom Pulley who wrote (3162)	4/23/2001 12:37:40 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

... here in the U.S. we have one advantage over all other countries.....a high percentage of population with attention deficit disorder....very high IQ's,can look at life from a different angle and thereby think far out of the box, could care less about fitting in, and want to work wee hours into the night on some wierd subject that no one else is interested in. ... Good point. However, it would be more correct to say we are dealing with attention sufficit disorder. Made US (and some other places as well) great BTW Timothy McVeigh and Una bomber come straight out of this category. dj