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To: steve harris who wrote (246601)	8/19/2005 3:09:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571782

So you want to reward everyone based upon how much they sweat? I don't buy the "lottery of life" crap. Successful people today invested in themselves and took risks in order to be rewarded. The best ones make it look easy.... Bill Gates grew up in a rich household. He was given the best of everything. All he did was not reject it and made the best of it. He is to be commended but that's not worth the billions he has made. It was the luck of the draw and being in the right place at the right time. And you are total fool for believing otherwise.........just as you were a fool to believe that invading Iraq was the right thing. In other words you are consistent and are batting zippo! Its time to take the resources from the rich and give them to the poor! Let the rich eat cake!

To: steve harris who wrote (246601)	8/19/2005 3:43:55 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571782

>Successful people today invested in themselves and took risks in order to be rewarded. The best ones make it look easy.... An economics textbook I read not long ago cited a study where eight practiced stockbrokers made predictions over a period of time, and there was a competition to see whose basket of stocks did the best. The twist here, is that a trained monkey was the ninth stockbroker, and finished somewhere in the middle. I'm not saying that some people don't work harder than others, or take more risks, or are smarter, or have more skills than others. But to have a society where based on one break, a guy can live in a mansion and be set for life while another can be living on the street and the first doesn't have to give a shit about the second, is lousy. Maybe you don't give a shit about the second, but I do, and want to have a system where everybody benefits from prosperity, not just those who are already prosperous. -Z