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 Posted: 05/16/06 - 17:06 Post subject: trading from a paperclip to a house...
has anyone heard about this canucklehead?
if not - google it.
the guy has started out with a red paper clip, and has traded it all the way up to a van (i'm not sure where he is currently at).
check it out. things like this are great.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 17:53 Post subject:
I read that he did indeed get a year's rent, but he wanted an actual house.
It's cool yet weird what we Westerners have time in our lives for.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 17:56 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | I read that he did indeed get a year's rent, but he wanted an actual house.
It's cool yet weird what we Westerners have time in our lives for. |
but that is the ultimate example of the Westerner ambition.
strike out on your own and make it big.
i'd say he did alright.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 17:57 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | | airehead wrote: | I read that he did indeed get a year's rent, but he wanted an actual house.
It's cool yet weird what we Westerners have time in our lives for. |
but that is the ultimate example of the Westerner ambition.
strike out on your own and make it big.
i'd say he did alright. |
Yeah, but back in the day people worked hard for that house, not just trading.
It is an interesting concept. I wonder what other cultures would think of it.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 18:00 Post subject:
worked hard?
that's bartering - some people figure things out first, strike it rich, all that.
it doesn't really matter how you got from A to B, just that they got there.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 18:03 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | worked hard?
that's bartering - some people figure things out first, strike it rich, all that.
it doesn't really matter how you got from A to B, just that they got there. |
Actually, in my book it does matter how people get from point A to B.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 18:11 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | blue wrote: | worked hard?
that's bartering - some people figure things out first, strike it rich, all that.
it doesn't really matter how you got from A to B, just that they got there. |
Actually, in my book it does matter how people get from point A to B. |
well as long as it was done ethically...
a plan to go from a paperclip to a house? that's not any different then deciding to start a farm, and selling enough cows (or whatever) to provide for a family. sure it's more work, but i bet the farmer would have gone with the 'paperclip' idea if he had the chance.
same reason people went panning/digging for gold. it's not that people don't want to work hard, it's just that sometimes they have ideas that are different.
for example, i work hard at my job, and boy wouldn't i like to have a years rent  . i can only commend him for making that happen.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 20:19 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | | same reason people went panning/digging for gold. it's not that people don't want to work hard, it's just that sometimes they have ideas that are different. |
But usually it's just that we don't want to work hard. Trust me, I know.
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Posted: 05/16/06 - 20:39 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | blue wrote: | | same reason people went panning/digging for gold. it's not that people don't want to work hard, it's just that sometimes they have ideas that are different. |
But usually it's just that we don't want to work hard. Trust me, I know. |
just because you have an idea that's easier to do, doesn't me you aren't interested in working hard.
i enjoy working hard - but if there was an easier option, shouldn't i take it? (all things being equal)
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