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To: elmatador who wrote (60115)2/7/2005 4:06:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Respond to of 74559
 
< those countries in Europe and the US didn't get rich being nice, MQ!>

They got rich in the 19th and 20th centuries.

You are wrong ElM. They did get rich by being nice. The created democratic human and property rights in a benighted world of totalitarian kleptocratic kingdoms and fiefdoms.

They didn't get rich by theft, contrary to recent popular rumour. They got rich from the Protestant work ethic and civilization.

Mqurice