On 8/1/07, David Powers <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Larry Garfield wrote: > > If a plumber fixes your toilet, he gets paid once. > > A plumber came recently to fix our hot water system. It took him less > than one hour. He got paid about $100. > > > If a writer writes a book, he gets paid n times, where n is a (hopefully for > > him) ever-increasing number. > > I write a book (actually, I've written several). It takes me on average > seven or eight months' full-time work. You buy a copy of my book, I get > $1.50-$2.25. For me to get the same rate of pay as a plumber, I would > need to sell 70,000 copies of each book. I should be so lucky. > > David Powers Yes, and the president gets a lot more.... Tijnema -- Vote for PHP Color Coding in Gmail! -> http://gpcc.tijnema.info -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
