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In a message dated 10/8/01 7:02:44 AM, spectro@... writes:

>Call it what you like, in the end it is a matter of relativity...  If
>you have wealthy people, you will, by necessity, have impoverished
>people and those who 'come up' do so at the expense of others.  Look
>around you...

Not necessarily. Thats the theory of free trade. Look at China and India - 
both dirt poor, but coming up fast - because they plenty of cheap labor.  You 
could hire a PHd in India with what you pay a Janitor in the US.