On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 22:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:46:12PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > > Where the hell do you think the money came from? If an investor can't > > expect a return, why should he put himself at risk? > > It's basically gambling picking a stock that'll last long enough and > perform well enough to create dividends. Furthermore, the payoff > frequently is drastically disproportionately high relative to the > individual effort put in to creating that wealth: I see it basically > as tricking some stupid asshole into giving you a $20 for a $5. > That's not working, that's being a crook.
Paul & I definitely agree here. IMO, the only *real* investors are the original stock purchasers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
