25,000,000,000,000 Zoltans, new of course.
Posted on 05/17/2002 4:19:45 PM PDT by rohry
And more power to him if he doesn't. He developed Winows and marketed it. He hammered out the deals. He was the one who recognized that the real action wasn't the computer but the operating system. What? You gotta dig a ditch before you can say you earned it? I welded for many a year. I got scars from it. Steel is heavy and a mig welder is hot. I sweated. I did 8 yrs in the Army and I sweated a lot there too. I admire the hell out of Bill Gates. He worked harder than I ever have and he deserves every penny he owns and I hope he makes a big pile more. And I don't care what he looks like- if you got that many billion dollars, I guarantee you sweated at some point.
What's hard? That's subjective. I would speculate that Bill Gates puts more time into his work than the average 9- 5 construction worker. I would imagine his work load would be intolerable to the average person. I have done hard physical labor in my life and I will readily admit that Bill Gates has worked harder than I have.
Well, was it in Euros? What's that in real money? (-:
Oh yes I wanna know
What's the name of the game?!
Does it mean anything...
to you?
The poorest sections of West Virginia and Vermont are probably poorer yet more livable than Detroit or Newark. hint: it isn't the income level, it's the culture of the residents
25,000,000,000,000 Zoltans, new of course.
The affluence of the welfarist Western European countries is indeed a myth. I studied in Austria and worked in Germany for a while, and found that most of the people there lived no better than we do here in Western Hungary--a post-communist country!
Notice how many inheritors of wealth are Leftists? The Leftists are not jealous of wealth -- they are jealous of THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE WEALTH, because they realize they don't have it. Their parents or grandparents did, but they don't
The purpose of socialism is not to eliminate wealth -- it is to make it impossible for someone who starts out poor, but with brilliance and energy, to climb into the ranks of the wealthy. The wealthy support socialism because they do not want competition
Hey, I used to live in the rich part of socialist Maine (York County)!
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