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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