<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:17 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan TheBookMan<br><b><span style="color:#1f497d">…</span></b></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">​are ​</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Donald Trump, Ben Carson and</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Ted Cruz, world class ignoramuses all. <span style="color:#1f497d">…</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">  John K Clark</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Donald Trump: graduated from Wharton school of business, became a self-made multi-billionaire.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><br><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>If inheriting millions makes someone self-made, then I guess "self-made" is a useless term now<span style="color:#1f497d">…</span>Dan<span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Using John’s numbers, he inherited 40 million, now is about 4 billion.  That’s 100-fold increase, when the stock market increased by about a factor of 20 to 25 in that same four decades.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I grant there was plenty of luck involved.  Lucky is good.<span class="HOEnZb"></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The luck of what? Connections with those in power that one can influence with a quite large inherited fortune? Also, what is the use of his particular business acumen here? So he can take a huge fortune and make it bigger. Why should such a man be given any power over others?<br><br></div><div>And, in this particular discussion, would you say he's a good judge of what direction scientific research should go?<br></div><div><br></div><div>By the way, I know one person who inherited approximately $1200 from his parents. He's made a six figure salary for about a dozen years. Would you say he's on the same level of Trump?<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Regards,</span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Dan</span></div></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span>  Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/</font></a></div></div></div></div></div>
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