[geeks] Well, crap ...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/03/13 Tue AM 07:59:09 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Well, crap ...

>Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Mike Meredith wrote:
>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:12:42 -0500, Kevin R. Marshall wrote:
>>>> If everyone made large amounts of money, it would have no value.  So
>>>> much for Utopia...
>>> Arguably, money has no value anyway. 
>> 
>> I've always felt money becomes somewhat meaningless when you get to the
>> point where it's accumulating faster than you can possibly spend it.
>> But maybe that's an issue of finding worthy things to spend it on.
>> (Funding development of private-sector spaceflight, say, or funding
>> water-desalination plants in places where fresh water is desperately
>> needed.)
>
>Indeed.  If I put my mind to being a thorough hedonist, I could find 
>ways to spend a rather substantial amount of money very quickly.  If I 
>set no limits on my frivolity, I could probably spend the entire Saudi 
>royal treasury in not too much time.
>
>Although, after that I probably still wouldn't be anywhere near broke, 
>since some of the stuff I had bought would probably make me money in the 
>long run.

Wasn't that one of the plot points in "Brewster's Millions" - a Richard Pryor movie? He had to spend a million dollars and have nothing left, before he could inherit many more millions... It was hard for him to do it, but then again, it was a comedy ;^)

Lionel