Friday, March 10, 2006

Who Wants to be a Billionaire?

So I saw that the Forbes list of billionaires came out recently. It's pleasing that so many hard working people are able to work and make something for themselves in our capitalistic world economy. It's been commented that these folks should be giving more to the poor to close the gap between the haves and the have nots. What I see with most of them is their large business empires that employ millions, and turn them into haves. Granted, some of them made their money by less than ethical means (internet gambling) but they all get their just rewards (not being able to return to the United States.)
My personal favorite new billionaire is Mr Dyson, the vacuum guy. If you invent a vacuum that sucks no matter what, you deserve to be a billionaire. Talking with people who claim to know a thing or two about physics, it appears that Mr Dyson has managed to enclose a black hole into every one of his vacuum cleaner machines. Now, instead of being sucked into little bags full of lint and pet hair, our household floor waste will be transported to another galaxy, possibly forming the super dense core of matter needed for another big boom creation event. An entire galaxy created from lint and pet hair, that's a billion dollar idea.

3 comments:

Big Morty said...

I was a little worried when writing this one. It started out with a pretty serious tone. I'm glad I managed to swing a different way and wring some humorous insight out of the whole thing.

Birding is Fun! said...

In a Today's Show interview with British vacuum mogel James Dyson Matt Laurer asked,

"So what is it like to be a billionaire?"

"It sucks!"



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Dakrat said...

Are you sure we aren't on the other end of this deal, and the black holes are just his way of smuggling that stuff to our world from another universe? I've always wondered how all those dust bunnies multiply under my bed so quickly.