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From: wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: How to get rich with a time machine
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Date: Sat, 14-Apr-84 01:40:52 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 14 01:40:52 1984
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Better watch yourself with that stock market gimmick. I remember reading
an SF story where a wealthy individual had amassed considerable
assets in the market. He had visions of another crash upcoming, so he
borrowed a time machine which a mad-scientist relative of his had
just recently invented and jumped several years into the future to
find out when it was. Upon consulting the newspapers in the local
library, he fouind out the big crash was the day after he left, so
he dashed back and told his broker to sell everything. The next day,
the headlines were exactly the same as he remembered, but the fine
print (which he hadn't bothered to read in the library) revealed that
the major cause was \\his own sellout//. He promptly became the target
of a rather large lynch mob composed of people who had lost their
shirts in the collapse.

Another story along slightly different lines (I think this one is by
Fredric Brown) concerns the inventor who builds a time machine and
then tries to figure out how to get rich with it when one has virtually
no money, only to find out that there is a Time Police with the
duty of ensuring that no illegal activities are committed with time
machines. He eventually gets shut down permanently -- quite funny.

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
          ...Killjoy WAS here!          ucbvax!wildbill