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<p>[QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 3767426, member: 20480"]To put into context for those who think they will “strike it rich in pocket change” overnight, that’s 2,500,000 coins. If it took you four seconds to obtain, examine and return each coin, which is optimistically fast, you’d have put in ten million seconds.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ten million seconds amounts to over 2500 hours of effort . . . Much more than working a full job time for one year. That isn’t exactly overnight. Working hard at a full-time job offers far better odds than the unrealistic hopes instilled by the flashin-in-the-pan strike it rich books flying off the shelves of the book stores.</p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly, the only group benefitting from this trend that is laughing all the way to the bank is the booksellers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 3767426, member: 20480"]To put into context for those who think they will “strike it rich in pocket change” overnight, that’s 2,500,000 coins. If it took you four seconds to obtain, examine and return each coin, which is optimistically fast, you’d have put in ten million seconds. Ten million seconds amounts to over 2500 hours of effort . . . Much more than working a full job time for one year. That isn’t exactly overnight. Working hard at a full-time job offers far better odds than the unrealistic hopes instilled by the flashin-in-the-pan strike it rich books flying off the shelves of the book stores. Frankly, the only group benefitting from this trend that is laughing all the way to the bank is the booksellers.[/QUOTE]
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