Pat Winstanley wrote:
> In article <bg6oqt$lqgln$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>,
> kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com says...
>> Yes, I did deserve it. Company A says, "Invest in us and if we are
>> profitable we will pay you a dividend". If Company A is profitable, I
>> deserve a dividend. This means I win.
>>
>
> Deserve?

Yes, one deserves that for which one has contracted. For example, if we
agree that I will pay you $5 in exchange for washing my car, you deserve to
be paid $5 upon performance. By the same token, if Company A and I agree
that Company A will pay me a dividend if it makes a profit in exchange for
my investment, I deserve to be paid the dividend upon Company A's making of
a profit. If you still cannot understand this, I don't know what to tell
you. People deserve that for which they contract. If they did not, no one
would ever enter a contract.

> ROFL!!!!

Indeed.

> Unearned income, dear, unearned! ;-))

How is it unearned? Two people made a contract. How do you suppose there
would be much of an economy if there weren't people who invested in
companies?

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"His final words to me were: 'This time I think the Americans are
serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end.' "
 - Ala'a Makki, the former director of Uday Hussein's television
station, on the Ace of Hearts