[TomCollins]

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We're better off today mainly because of the introduction of better government. There are other reasons, of course.



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Yes, the less, the better.


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It came from the blood, sweat, and toil of millions of workers, often working for a fraction of the real worth of their labor, in order to enrich the bank accounts of the already rich - so that they can, in turn, become even richer.


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Karl Marx, you have an apprentice. That and the fact that people had ideas to hire them and use them in productive ways.




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Gates is rich because he was able to introduce his product at a time and in a way that provided him with a near-monopoly on operating system software.


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Sounds like a smart guy to me

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If he had not done it, somebody else would have.

And it's possible - even likely - that we'd all be better off today, if we were using some other software than Windows.

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Doh. Thought we had something that made sense. Someone else maybe would have, perhaps 30 years later. Who knows.