At 08:22 21/04/02 -0400, you wrote: >Wealth is real, though relative, and is measured in units of currency >(dollars). But as the recent dot.com boom/bust demonstrated, it can also be >illusory. > >Ed Weick
Exactly. What was real was the money that went into the dotcom businesses. What was illusory was the value of the shares that were purchased. (Except the value of the shares in my own dotcom business, of course. The value of my shares are going up all the time.) Keith Hudson >> Hmmm.... >> >> Rocks are "real", we can stub our toes on them; coins are "real", we can >> choke on them, or throw them at dogs urinating on our lawns (forgive me >> Bishop Berkeley). "Money", like other forms of totem worship is a social >> convention. >> >> MG __________________________________________________________ �Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
