From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 20:01:50 MST
From: "Emlyn O'regan" <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au>
> James Rogers replied:
> > I can't speak for your country, but in the U.S. your assumptions would
> > simply be wrong. Nearly all the wealthy people in this
> > country are entirely
> > self-made, and the majority of those achieved wealth as
> > blue-collar workers
> > who were not born into the vaguest semblance of privilege.
(What was it Rod Serling used to say at the beginning of those old Twilight
Zone episodes: "Submitted for your ...") Anyway, here is a quote from Gore
Vidal (it's not science, it's certainly not 100% correct, but there seems to
be a ring of truth ...):
"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
Olga
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