Posted on 02/20/2016 12:39:01 PM PST by SatinDoll
Is the market the measure of success? If so, why would a person start a winery, paint paintings, build homes, etc? Why would a person race cars or go to the moon when you can just sit back and watch your money fluxuate from one set of zeros to more zeros while sitting on a yacht somewhere with other idle rich.
You do it because you’re creative, you do it because it’s hard, you do it because it’s your calling. I suppose there’s a place for fund managers in this world...but they don’t create tangible items of beauty and value..instead they bet on other people’s creations.
It’s virtually the same policy Mr. Trump is supporting...makes your statement somewhat ironic...
neat pic!
Indeed, but Trump himself presents his wealth as the great proof of his own success. Lagging the economy as a whole, measured by the valuation of a broad stock index, makes that view a bit hollow.
He says he created a great company...and he did. He says he has wonderful assets...and he does. He says he has a lot of money....and he does.
Someone who made billions while doing something he loves isn’t a hollow a success....at least not to me.
I have a book called Accidental Empires that is about the Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others of that era - all those tech people back in the late 70s and early 80s. With the possible exception of Gates it wasn’t about the money - it was about creating something that interested them.
>Warhol School of Business
hhehe..
Yeah, it should have been the Wharton School of Business. How pathetic!
Maher: Dem Position On Immigration Has Morphed Into “You Get Across That River, You’re Here To Stay”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3411354/posts
Note: this topic is from . Thanks SatinDoll.
Well then, you must like losing your job to someone in Mexico who will make $3/hour... China protects its industries with tariffs and local-content rules that make it effectively impossible for firms to do the same thing to them. But the United States, in return, gives China, Mexico and other nations open access to goods and services produced there even when their "advantage" comes from paying people $3/hour or having free rein to pollute the land, water and air instead of having to dispose of their toxic wastes cleanly and safely... $3/hour is in fact roughly 50% more than the minimum wage was when I started working. In other words, not a terrible wage. Now it's less than half of the minimum wage.
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