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To: Cogito who wrote (64517)	5/8/2008 6:23:50 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543150

O'Rourke's piece seemed to indicate that he thinks every one of us can be wealthy. I didn't get that from the piece. What I got were two messages. One that having ideals and making money aren't incompatible, that you can probably do greater good if you make money than if you play the starving do-gooder. The other is that having more money is simply better all around than having less money. Not necessarily serious wealth, just more than you might have had. In a competitive economy, some people will win by making a lot of money, and others will lose. My own opinion is that the vast majority of people can accumulate a significant stash over a lifetime if they apply themselves. People just don't do what is needed. Their focus is elsewhere. If you focus a graduating class on that, maybe they will apply themselves to it. I don't buy the notion that, absent terrible luck, anyone has to lose. Some just win more than others.