Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!pyramid!prls!philabs!gcm!dc From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million Message-ID: <459@white.gcm> Date: 7 May 88 08:26:19 GMT References: <9160@cisunx.UUCP> <1801@uhccux.UUCP> <807@netxcom.UUCP> <5079@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3367@attcan.UUCP> <5713@pyr.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell) Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT Lines: 30 In article <5713@pyr.gatech.EDU> joel@pyr.UUCP (Joel Rives) writes: . .[ Start sarcastic interlude ] <- lest other's misunderstand . .Let's all play "King of the Heap" and see who can get closest to the .top. Who cares that we may have to trample thousands of hapless jerks .that get in our way. Heh, that's the law of the jungle don't ya know! .And so what if the heap we're climbing is slowly but surely becoming .a dung heap due to all that trampling. Just as long as I get as .close to the top as I can (that way I don't have to look at all those .poor suckers down below). . .[ End sarcastic interlude ] . .Making lots of money is one thing. Doing it despite the welfare of the .rest of humanity is genocidal. genocide n. The systematic, planned annihilation of a racial, political or cultural group. [Gree gemas, race see gene] What is the world does the chairman of Lotus Development Inc. have to do with the rest of humanity. Life is not a zero sum game. Success does not neccessarily imply someone else's failure; maybe you are thinking of baseball games? Just so you know I got paid yesterday and the welfare of the rest of humanity never once crossed my mind and I should know. I'm saving it to buy a real BMW. I would rather be at the top than anywhere else and when I am not posting I spend most of my time working to get there. I think that a world where people were not rewarded for their efforts would be genocide for the U.S.