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To: elmatador who wrote (104267)	1/21/2014 11:23:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By dvdw© Respond to of 217662

The shirtless masses are approaching that idyllic state too, along the same exponential curve if they wish to travel on it. They can buy mobile Cyberspace amazing devices at absurdly cheap prices. Made in China products by the mountain are surging around the world. Made in China people are already far along the curve from the bad old days of Mao's maelstrom when poverty and famine were normal. That's a billion people. Pay rates have been rising for decades and what they can buy with those pay rates has been improving even faster. Americans' pay rates have not been increasing because of the Mexican invasion and the Made in China competition. Life is great and getting greater, for those who do not choose self-destruction. There is much moaning about the rich getting richer, as though that's a problem. It doesn't make my life worse because millions of people are soaring into wealth I can only imagine. Nor does it make my life worse because billions are catching up to me. More and more wealth is a good thing. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (104267)	1/22/2014 12:08:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217662

ElM, I got no deal from BP when I quit. They were not downsizing. They wanted me to stay on. I told them no, I'm going home. <Yes, but you don't matter since the day you got a sweet deal on oil company downsizing.> My descendants are very fortunate. <Which, by the way, will not be repeated for your descendants. Next generations will have a different -meaning tougher- type of deal.> I worked shirtless on scaffolding, in hay fields, in concrete pouring and all sorts, working days, weeks or years to buy pathetic technology with most of what's now cheap not even existing back then when a circular slide rule was an impressive tool and 7 figure logarithm tables were essential. T square, pencil, paper and eraser were my engineering design tools. My descendants work a few hours doing some cushy job and can buy cheap things Made in China. They have Samsung mobile Cyberspace devices which cost nearly nothing. Swishy cars with all mod cons are nearly free rather than costing a year's pay for a rust-bucket. Life's a doddle these days. Having a tv is not considered a big deal these days even in the welfare world. Things are getting better faster still. My children will be envious of how easy things are for their children who will grow up with A380s burning hardly any fuel to zoom around the world with a single stop enroute, optical fibre strung around the world including the hinterlands of Angola and all sorts. The sound of a fax machine connecting will be unknown as will the sound of a dial up modem but my children heard that sound. DNA measurement is now $1000. Just a decade ago it was $1 billion. Soon it will be even cheaper. The DNA industry is just starting. We missed out. Mqurice