Metchosin: I do take exception to your blanket statement that one doesn't become rich by being honest. It has been my experience, in
those that I have met over the years, that the accumulation of wealth and honesty are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

I'm talking about the VERY wealthy - not people who are wealthy because they have been employed in right livelihood. Most big money is made through exploitation of the masses. I, too, have wealthy friends who are decent people but they mostly inherited their wealth and spend most of their time trying to figure out how to make it last so they never have to work for anyone else.

You are absolutely right about developing secondary industries. We are practically giving away our resources.

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