> Past performance will not necessarily reflect (and should not dictate) future returns :) Not but you know--Bell, Microsoft, IBM and others are doing pretty w

> Past performance will not necessarily reflect (and should not dictate) future returns :) Not but you know--Bell, Microsoft, IBM and others are doing pretty well. > Also, the Arab world is arguably worse off... Invented much of math, and is now dominated by ascientific theocracies Hardly comparable. You're talking about stuff that happened thousands (5000? no idea) ago, Olivetti had a PC a handful of years before it took off and made many billionaires.