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To: elmatador who wrote (69207)	5/9/2008 11:44:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

So you think we live to eat while I think we eat to live. I have noticed that I ate not much as a child, loads as a young man, and not much as an old geezer. My ratio of food cost to revenue has declined spectacularly during my life. I have never thought of it in those terms before As a child, my ratio of revenue to food cost was about zero. Some time during my adolescence it reached 1. As a young man it zoomed to about 20. It stayed about 20 while 4 hungry children and their friends mowed through mountains of food and dropped to about 10 as they became seriously hungry as young adults and I quit working. As they flew the coop the ratio rose rapidly. My rice hoard was such a minuscule percentage that it was rather silly except that it was fun and it would be annoying if the government decided to "solve the problem" with rationing to some tiny amount and putting pricce controls on [meaning none would be available]. The meaning of life is to make the ratio of food cost to revenue as large as possible. That makes sense because hunger is a very bad thing for living things. Starvation is a very normal way for evolution to winnow the fit from the unfit [as in survival of the fittest]. Since living things don't like being "evolved" and humans can create revenue [unlike other living things which just do hunter gathering and opportunistic eating] we like to increase our ratio of revenue to food costs as it gives us more leeway when things go wrong = we can give up golf, booze, tobacco, cars, movies and other wastrel activities and concentrate expenditure on food. Mqurice