Prove this wrong!!!!

Oct 18, 2003, 1:07 PM ET2 posts by 2 posters
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Don Del Grande

Webmaster wrote:

Okay, I will.

Then again, since it says "up to", I can't prove it wrong, as (to paraphrase something in one of the Monty Python books) 'up to' clearly includes 'zero'".

What I would like to know is, how many different people are involved in these three different addresses.

It is, however, a pyramid scheme.

Well, technically, that's true, as you're not using the postal service at all.

However, I can prove that it's impossible for everybody to make money.

Every time somebody receives $5, somebody else loses (donates) that same $5. (The money doesn't just appear out of nowhere.) Therefore, at any given time, the total amount received by people involved must equal the total lost by people. However, in order for everybody to make money from this, the total amount received must be greater than the total amount lost, which, as I have shown, is impossible.

-- Don
Doug NorrisDon Del Grande

Don Del Grande writes:

Well, alright - but everyone in the world except for one person clearly must become rich. That last guy's going to get it in the shorts, though.

Doug