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To: elmatador who wrote (53718)	8/18/2009 1:56:03 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217884

Those six guys sound like Josef Stalin and his five aides. Thinking six million people to work doesn't create wealth. . . . You need 6 guys to think 6 million to work.

To: elmatador who wrote (53718)	8/18/2009 3:38:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217884

ElM, wealth doesn't require the 6 million to work. The 6 invent a really clever factory which automatically churns out calculators for $3 instead of the 6 million having to use an abacus or 7 figure logarithm tables and a slide rule. That's what wealth is. The 6 million don't need to get money to be wealthy. They can all just loll around at the beach and be vastly more wealthy than their great grandparents who had to work dawn to dusk just to get food, never mind using slide rules and 7 figure log tables. Now, for a few hundred dollars I can buy this amazing little EeePC which runs for at least 5 hours on a charge and can swish around cyberspace, and do lots of tricks. It even has a clock. Just the clock used to cost more than the whole computer. Oh it has a calculator too which is thrown in for no cost. It has a camera and microphone. Do you know how much video cameras used to cost before 6 good thinkers had some fun. Now you are learning what wealth is and how valuable thinking is. Cutting cane, shirtless in Brazil, is not wealth, but it sure is work. Mqurice