An unemployed man is desperate to support his family.
> His wife watches TV all day and his three teenage kids
> have dropped out of high school to hang around with the
> local toughs. He applies for a janitor's job at a large
> firm and easily passes an aptitude test.
>
> The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired
> at minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail
> address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will
> automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when
> to start and where to report on your first day."
>
> Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither
> a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies,
> "You must understand that to a company like ours that means
> that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address
> you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm.
> Good day."
>
> Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having
> $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees
> a stand selling 25lb crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys
> a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes.
> In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100%
> profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he
> ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several
> bags of groceries for his family.
>
> During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the
> next day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every
> day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.
> Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several
> boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the
> cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.
>
> At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have
> left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business,
> his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night
> courses at the community college so she can keep books for him.
> By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used
> trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all
> selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard. Time passes and at
> the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and
> a warehouse which his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms
> that the boys manage.
>
> The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and
> jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business
> grossed a million dollars.
>
> Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.
> Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan
> to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his
> e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.
>
> When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a
> computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned,
> What, you don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think
> where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"
>
> "Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would
> be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.15 an hour."
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