Despite the degradation
of his and his people's suffering, his
story reminds us - especially those
of us in the West whose intellectual and physical appetites have been deadened by
plenty - that being human is a constant striving for the possible and the wonderful.
And to an investor focused on value investing in the late 1990s, there were
plenty of illogical arguments to be found, whether it was a focus on eyeballs (webpage views) over profits, or any other metric that left one
reminded of the
story about a business losing money on every sale, but making it up on volume.