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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (29854)	2/24/2008 10:35:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217740

BS, in Canada, I started on only $10,000 a year!! Talk about low-paid. $5 an hour!! Slave labour. But that's better than what I got loading hay from 6.30am to 9.30pm or pouring concrete [carrying it in wheelbarrows] non-stop from 6pm to 6am going up into the sky on a slip-form at about 4 metres a night for only $1 an hour for the hay [1c per bale and we could do about 110 an hour but then there was unpaid traveling time] and a bit more than that for the concrete [it would have been about $1.30 per hour]. Those Norwegians are as rich as an Argentine! I learned about inflation decades ago, but the most telling example was the recent shrinkage of New Zealand's coins. Here's a photo of what they did. Note that they don't even bother showing the 2c and 1c coins which were introduced in 1967, with 2c replacing the threepenny piece [a "silver" coin] which were removed from circulation a few years ago. The 5c piece which isn't shown in the second lot was also removed. en.wikipedia.org The silver "shilling" of 1967, became the 10c in decimal currency, and is now the lowest unit equivalent to 1 penny then. The shilling is now brown and little. But then you could actually buy something with a penny and there were halfpennies too. Gold coins don't shrink like that. Mqurice