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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (26810)	1/4/2003 3:30:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Money as a motivator is over-rated in the world. Appreciation and love are much more powerful. How touching. Have you recently been hired by the Office of Strategic Influence? > I thought that might be tempting. No, I haven't been hired, but where do I apply and how much do they pay? I can be bought. But just an example of love as a motivator, try kidnapping a mother's baby and see what happens. Or, offer her a bunch of money for her first born. Given enough animal hunger, cold, stress, or terror, one might pry the offspring away, but it's not far up Maslow's hierarchy of needs before you will find some resistance to the temptation. Maybe you don't have a bunch of children to look after, but I assure you that love [and income equivalents] flow downwards. Payment by children for services rendered is not in the deal. Neither is there a tax deduction! Even the government, which claims the beloved offspring as tax and cannon fodder, is unappreciative. Mqurice