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12-07-2011, 08:06 AM
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So cities like Detroit became fantastically wealthy without rich people, and when they moved in it ruined the city.
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12-07-2011, 08:11 AM
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So cities like Detroit became fantastically wealthy without rich people, and when they moved in it ruined the city.
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It wasn't their presence - just their greed.
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12-07-2011, 08:12 AM
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So cities like Detroit became fantastically wealthy without rich people, and when they moved in it ruined the city.
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The rich people moved down the street to Grosse Point, after they shut down the factories and exported all of the jobs, leaving a desolate and crime ridden city behind them.
Maybe if we throw more money at them?
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12-07-2011, 08:31 AM
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How did it become wealthy in the first place? Government regulation? Or men with vision desiring wealth?
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12-07-2011, 09:23 AM
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How did it become wealthy in the first place? Government regulation? Or men with vision desiring wealth?
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Or men with sticky fingers?
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12-07-2011, 09:34 AM
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How did it become wealthy in the first place? Government regulation? Or men with vision desiring wealth?
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How about men with a vision to create a product.
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12-07-2011, 09:45 AM
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How about men with a vision to create a product.
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I thought wealth was the outcome of doing a good job, creating a good product, etc. Now wealth has become the goal, not the result.
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12-07-2011, 09:47 AM
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Wealth was always the goal!
Pete
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12-07-2011, 02:22 PM
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How did it become wealthy in the first place? Government regulation? Or men with vision desiring wealth?
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Option two, our course. But desiring it just a little too much. And being a tad too ruthless in their pursuit of it.
Action-Reaction.
There is a tipping point, where those being driven will take no more.
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12-07-2011, 02:42 PM
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Wealth was always the goal!
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Then the outcome was inevitable, If my aim is to become wealthy and I search around for some widget that will sell and make me wealthy then I will make it a cheaply as possible.
If , on the other hand I invent the proverbial mousetrap then I will endeavour to make it as well as it can be made - why? Because it has my name on it.
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