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Have to say if you look at our history it is difficult to see us in a particularly good light. Perpetual war somewhere, genocide...

Really ? You've not been to Russia then. Or China. North Korea.

Same as eating too much ?

I think merit and deserving are both subjective things judged by other people. A picture may have artistic merit in my view, whereas...

Not at all. Judging by some of the biographical information given by others in this thread, I'd suggest that they are not that unusual...

Well, we'll have to differ on this one.

I've employed a few (very few) quants and quite a lot of people (in a different business) who worked with their hands. There are not...

Really ? Does anyone force you to go out and buy product X or product Y ?

Then tighten up the rules. That reply is just childish and ignores all the philanthropic and charitable work that he carries out.

It’s a factor of how much revenue workers generate that determines the reward they get. Some one working all day weaving baskets will...

I've not heard it before. It's good, though.:)

I find Monbigot a trifle trite in his very narrow-minded in his treatment of this topic and adopts the Jacob approach that everything...

You don't need to be a socialist to have moral and social values....whatever gave you the idea that only socialists have those values...

Why should it be a straight line? To think that that is the right approach is bordering on naivety. It fails to grasp economic...

But the fact is that there was an opening, Bezoz spotted it and the rest, as they say, is history. There will be other openings.