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[tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

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> > The schools objective was to create scholars (what we would call 
> > liberal arts graduates), coupled with the message that any accomplished 
> > scholar could become a merchant to attain wealth and power.
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> By how?  Passing regulations that ensured that only Chang scholars could 
> possibly do business at a profit?  If so, things haven't changed much.
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> James
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tvoivozhd---nope.  The way most of us except the hereditary rich have to 
do ---learn how to think, transfer that capacity to the business world.  
The latter was considered the ideal though some drifted into the 
military, and there was at least one Chang Clan king.