RE: [GBlist] re. Piece of the "pie" and other guilt trips

[Gilbert Midonnet <gilbert.midonnet@btec.com>]

Title: RE: [GBlist] re. Piece of the "pie" and other guilt trips

> nobody can really believe the wealthy now work a
> thousand or ten thousand times harder to get that much richer than the
> poor.

I certainly do. Or, at least, I would if it were phrased that the people some people produce 10,000 times more wealth than others.

Compare what a back-hoe can do versus a shovel, a crane versus a man and a rope. Oh yeah, combine mechanical power with the increased speed of information and decision making (blueprint correction made by realtime cameras, faxes, computers versus waiting 2 days for the engineer to arrive at the site). Oh yes, I can easily see increased productivity by factors of 1000.

-- glm

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