[geeks] Well, crap ...

Sheldon T. Hall shel at tandem.artell.net
Mon Mar 12 23:59:52 CDT 2007


Quoth Lionel Peterson ...
> >From: "Kevin R. Marshall" <kevin at mpcf.com>
> 
> > If everyone made large amounts of money, it would have no 
> > value.  So much for Utopia...
> 
> I said COULD, not would - I want everyone to have the ability 
> to make a lot 
> of money, but I agree, if everyone did, it would be 
> worthless... (I thought of that after I hit send)

Actually, compared to 40 or 50 years ago, everyone _does_ make a lot of
money.  At least they earn and posess a lot of units of currency, albeit
currency that is worth about 10% of what it was worth back then.  That's in
the USA; it's worse in some other places.

-Shel



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