joke: the value of the internet

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>

> An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor.

> The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section:

> Floors, sweeping and cleaning).

>

> After the test, the manager says, " You will be employed at minimum wage,

> $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a

> form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your first

> day.

>

> Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an

> e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, " Well, then, that means

> that

> you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed.

>

> Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only $10

> in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 pound flat of tomatoes at the

> supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes

> individually

> at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends

> up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night. And thus it dawns on

> him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up

> early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly.

>

> After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of

> tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a pick-up

> truck to support his expanding business. By the end of the second year,

> he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a

> hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.> >

>

> Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some

> life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an

> insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone

> conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to

> send the final documents electronically.

>

> When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned,

> What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass

> such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine

> where you would be now, if you had been connected to the internet from

> the very start! "

>

> After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, " Why, of

> course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft! "

>

> Moral of this story:

>

> 1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.

>

> 2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a

> millionaire.

>

> 3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably

> closer to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.

>

> 4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been

> taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.

>