Re: "Fairness" Doctrine
- From: Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:33:08 GMT
On 19 Sep 2006 19:16:14 -0700, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Joerg wrote:
Hello Bill,
I think you have this wrong. Advertizers don't want to advertize to the
rich. They need people with enough money to buy the product and not
enough brains to know not to buy it. Rush Limbaugh listeners are
prescreened for being gullible.
Rich people are generally smart enough not to buy the crap they hear about
on the radio. This is how they got rich.
The ones who call in during the program seem to be rather smart.
I presume that the one's whose calls go out to air are a selected
group, and anot all that representative - if Rush Limbaugh's
advertisers had to live on the money from the people whose calls get
aired, they'd go broke quite quickly.
A superficially plausible hypothesis, but sadly at odds with the facts
Most of the rich got rich by being lucky enough to be in the right
place at the right time, as in "careful choice of parents". ...
A couple of my friends and relatives have made a lot of money in a
variety of different ways. They had to know roughly what they were
doing, and work hard, but they really did have to be in the right place
at the right time to get the chance to make real money out of their
skill and energy.
This is nicely and completely put. One thing that a lot of people who
work hard and work smart to get somewhere often forget, after they get
there, is that it also took luck, too. Often blinded to the fact of
that ingredient in their lives. There are a lot of very smart, very
hardworking people in the world. And that alone isn't enough. Luck
(opportunity) is also needed.
With luck alone one can make a small fortune, even without any hard
work or intellect -- just have the luck to be born with a large
fortune and lose some of it. But without luck, hard work and
intellect alone is no guarantee -- it just helps a whole lot.
How do you know that? For some reason this opinion seem to manifest
itself over and over in Europe. Lots of people who legally immigrate to
the US own next to nothing in money or other assets when they arrive.
Yet most of them succeed and some of them become rich.
Also true of Australia. If you define success as getting a job that
pays a decent salary, most people who are enterprising enough to move
from one country to another are enterprising enough to be successful. A
small proportion do a lot better than that, but nobody has worked out
how to pick the winners in advance - and the most probable explanation
is that spectacular success usually comes from being lucky.
It takes more left-wingers than right-wingers to attract an advertiser
- left-wingers have less money and better critical faculties than right
wingers so advertsing to them doesn't pay off anything like as well.
ROFL...
American right-wingers voted for George W. Bush, supported his
hare-brained invasion of Irak, and believe in his war on terror - think
what this says about their critical faculties!
:)
Jon
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