Sometime when you want to drive yourself up the wall, sit down and try to figure this out.\u00a0 Who all did the thing. What was the product made out of\u2014we\u2019ll say steel.\u00a0 So somebody had to mine iron.\u00a0 Somebody had to mine coal or coke.\u00a0 Somebody had to mine other things, and they had to put a big furnace together.\u00a0 The people that ran the furnace had to eat as well as all those other people doing the other things.\u00a0 Somebody had to produce food.\u00a0 Somebody had to produce shelter; and so we look …\u00a0it seems that everybody is involved in the simplest things we have from a loaf of bread to the watch on your\u00a0wrist to a piece of furniture or anything else that we may have or use.<\/p>\n
I sat down and thought about a Vladimir Horowitz cassette tape I had.\u00a0 I thought about his mother and father, his lessons, his teacher, his piano, the recording studio and all those people who did the recording.\u00a0 Then it came to the items to make the tape and the travel to the store.\u00a0 The store that sold it and the clerks.\u00a0 The tape player I bought so I could hear it.\u00a0 And I paid next to nothing to have the enjoyment of his playing.\u00a0 What an exercise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometime when you want to drive yourself up the wall, sit down and try to figure this out.\u00a0 Who all did the thing. What was the product made out of\u2014we\u2019ll say steel.\u00a0 So somebody had to mine iron.\u00a0 Somebody had … Continue reading