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At 03:38 PM 2/9/99 -0500, Sherry Boyd <clb5q@virginia.edu> wrote:
>Shouldn't the subject be changed if in fact the subject has changed?
yes of course. i apologize. i was responding to an off topic question, and
neglected to change the subject. sorry.
>What happened to the original question asked in earnest about the slippery
>slope of living one's values with regard to the stock market? No one has
>an opinions or advice??
i believe the wide-range benefits of stock dividends paying for two
emancipated persons, especially two who want to put their lives towards
living/creating earth=friendly ways, would far outweigh the -anomoly- that
is Microsoft's personality disorder. After all, selling that tiny fraction
of the whole corporation to another stockholder isn't going to impact Bill
Gates one iota, yet it would impact the two of you, immensely.
by all means, keep the stock, enjoy it, thank god for quirks of nature and
man that allow any person to live their best ethics and dreams.
congratulations on having that stock, and enjoy it.
k
ps. i own stock in a worse company than you, one of the biggest banks in
the world. i was given it as a gift from my dad, about a month ago. i plan
to sell it and invest it in some kind of property development here in my
county so that i can further the goals of sustainability very directly, such
as creating an organic gardening/dining club. whatever it would take to set
that up in style.
but i only feel good about doing that because i know my husband would manage
it and he is a genius with money and materials. i've been watching him turn
little bits of money into big hunks of wealth for twenty years. so i have
no trepidation of investing with him. but if i thought the money would be
squandered, i'd just as soon hang on to the stock.
k