-> to make that your standard... 10 years ago I wonder how many PCs were
-> bought by businesses and how many were bought by the citizenry of thi
-> country? You and I both know that the citizenry does not just run out
-> and by $3,000 products on a whim. Ask IBM they found out the hard way

      Huh? I bought my first computer when I was 16! I saved and saved
(cut an awful lot of lawns) just to go out and drop $1000 on a trs-80.
This was in 1977, when $1000 was expensive. If it were not for the fact
that companies like radio shack and apple exploded from sales to people
like myself, the communication medium we are using right now might not
even exist.

    But this was not my point at all though. I was referring to the fact
that I was probably earning  more money in 1977 as a teenager cutting
lawns than your average 1993 mexican laborer. With such a dis-economy of
scale, who will really purchase big ticket items?

   You say you have travelled. Have you considered the lifestyle of
these people? How about looking up thier per capita income sometimes in
an atlas and saying "maybe they can't afford a better life". That's not
to say we shouldn't be trying, but are you, yourself, personally willing
to give up your lifestyle and monetary happiness, just so someone else
can have a little bit more? Higher taxes, and what have you, so that we
can have a nafta?


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