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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (128696)	4/8/2004 8:14:43 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

BBM, any idea that's not conventional wisdom comes across as eccentric. Luddites love conformity and the status quo. Mq PS: It's not just governments. Even in my well-paid job in BP where they paid me to come up with stuff, they all too often did nothing.... I don't think it's necessarily being a luddite that is the common core of the problem...That executive in BP is thinking...."If you're so smart why are YOU working for ME?" ... Worse yet. "If they figure out that you're smarter than me, then they just might have me working for you." Ding! "What a stupid idea you have!" You stand a better chance as a consultant at $500/hr. Then the executive is really smart for having picked you for your brilliant ideas. But the best tactic, is to convince the executive that your brilliant ideas were really his brilliant ideas and you [you menial servant of the corporation] are merely documenting them in your report. Which is necessary, since he is far too busy doing really important things to document them himself. It's an easier tactic to pull off than one might think. jttmab