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busdriver Journeyman
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Cylinsier wrote: | busdriver wrote: | If you sold a 50million dollar painting you got at a garage sell for 1 dollar,would you give the seller the money? |
You bought the painting for 1 dollar. It ceased being the other person's painting and became yours. You sold the painting for 50 million. That is your money as the owner making the sale. While it might be a nice gesture to share some of that with the first owner, I don't think anyone should feel obligated. |
I knew your smart butt would say that |
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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If E does not share with me I am turning him in! _________________
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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SSSS wrote: | If E does not share with me I am turning him in! |
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busdriver Journeyman
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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ellipses wrote: | SSSS wrote: | If E does not share with me I am turning him in! |
You'd never know I had it |
best answer so far E |
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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If I know that painting is worth big money and someone is willing to sell it to me for a dollar, I'm sure I'd buy it, but I also would cut them in on the profit. I don't mind taking advantage of someone in a capitalist pursuit, but I have my limits. Imagine that it's an 80-year-old woman cleaning out the garage after her husband's death, and she doesn't know the painting is worth anything. I really couldn't, in good conscience, buy it for a buck and keep the whole $50 million. At the same time, I'm not going to pass up a chance to help myself in the deal. If we're splitting $50 million, I don't think anyone is going to complain. _________________
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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If I sold a painting I got for $1 for $1,000,000, I'd feel so guilty I'd probably try to find the original owner and give them a portion.
When I have a garage sale, I try to distance myself from what I am selling and who I am selling it to. To me, the painting is only worth $1 and if someone makes more than that from it, more power to them. But you bet I'd be kicking myself if I found out they got $1,000,000! _________________ -amom
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Amphikalein Journeyman
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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In general, i'd be inclined to refrain from reporting it, but i'd also probably send a good chunk of it to Haiti relief and local charities. Alternately, i also might keep quiet and hang onto it while keeping an eye on the area where i found it. Given the possibility of Brant's scenario of the widow clearing out her husband's detritus, hopefully i'd know my neighbors enough to be aware of the situation, in which case i'd return it to her.
All that being said, once upon a time i actually did find an unmarked envelope containing a sizable amount of cash in a public place and chose to turn it in. It turned out to be money intended for a tuition payment which had fallen out of a student's coat when she was sitting in a lobby at West Virginia University Hospital. She was very grateful. _________________ "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~Martin Luther King Jr.
"May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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dick Journeyman
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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If I bought the painting because I liked it, and later found out it was worth a million bucks, I wouldn't feel bad for the seller. However, if I knew it was a worth big bucks when buying it, only then would I feel some sense of guilt.
Once upon a time, I had feelings like the rest of yas. I've been influenced by too many shrewd businessmen to not cash in on the few (if any) opporunities I may get in life. _________________
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busdriver Journeyman
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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dick wrote: |
Once upon a time, I had feelings like the rest of yas. I've been influenced by too many shrewd businessmen to not cash in on the few (if any) opporunities I may get in life. |
Which reminds me of another story that took place somewhere back here in this general area. Now and again it pops up in some Sunday paper magazine section.
There was a deer hunter who came from here but moved to work in Cleveland. Every year he came back for deer season. One year in the early 60's he was caught in a bad rain/snow storm and saw a small hole in the side of a hill by him and sqeezed in the hole which was a cave.
When he became accustomed to the little light there was, he saw a pile of bricks on the side of the cave. It turned out they were bars of silver. It is said he took what he could carry back to his home in Ohio and would come back every week-end until he had it all.
No one knows for sure how many there were, but they had markings on them that stated they were part of a shipment that was not completed and were smelted way back in the late 1700's or early 1800's.
The paper also mentioned that every now and then a bar would show up in some part of Ohio away from Cleveland. They guessed that he would sell a few a time when he needed cash. Then it stopped, no more marked bars ever showed up again.
My guess is he learned how to re-melt them into different sizes or how to remove the stampings.
Used to work with an engineer who would drive all the to Nevada/Colorado every summer on vacation and buy 5-6 bushels of rock laced with gold from one of the mines out there and haul them back.
We had furnaces in our pilot plant that heated up to 4000 degrees and every day when he was done, he would haul a bushel down there and set the rocks in a high temp dish above a quartz tray and let the gold melt in to the tray. He never would say if he got any gold out of it and we worked too far away from him to see. |
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