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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (67566)	10/26/2010 4:53:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220075

No it's not BS: < VVV is really all about making a buck at the other guy's expense.. nothing romantic or heroic at all.. pragmatic ? yes of course... ... it really is that simple > There really is an abstraction to VVV over and above the crass making of a buck at somebody else's expense. Life is no longer a zero sum hunter gatherer territorial alpha male tribal dominance found wealth existence for humans. To the extent that China continues with that thinking of yours, they'll never amount to much. Steve Jobs doesn't battle back from pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant to make another $billion or two. Of course it's ego-fulfillment and that's fine. He's making the world a better place. As he said to Sculley decades ago - "Forget the fizzy drink, come work at Apple and change the world". Bill Gates didn't just do it all to become the richest person ever, but that was no doubt good fun too. Now he's working to do Noblesse Oblige things with his accumulated wealth to make the world better. Irwin Jacobs had retired, decided there wasn't much in that, so started Qualcomm which is really changing the world. It wasn't to get more money, which he gives away to various worthy VVV causes. Don't think that the USA gets to claim the mantle of VVV for any stupid thing they do. Invading Iraq was not VVV. It was obvious that there were no WMDs [or insignificant amounts] and I ranted so at the time. VVV is both romantic and heroic. I can recount various stories from back in the day. Mqurice