If you had bought $1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49. With Enron it would now be worth $16.50, and with WorldCom you would have $5.00 from your original $1000. However if you had bought $1000 worth of Budweiser beer, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for recycling money, you would have $214.

 

Where can you get (converting everything to Cdn dollars) about that many cans of beer for a mere $1500? Here (according to my classmates - I've never bought or drank beer in my life ) a can of beer costs roughly $1.75, so for your $1500 you get roughly 860 cans. To get $327 for them, that would mean you were paid nearly $0.40 per can, which is ludicrous. Here they pay by weight, not number of cans, and it works out to about $0.05 to $0.08 per can.

Must be some recycling program to give out payments like that!

Yes, I do have too much free time on my hands.

 

You're paying $1.75 for a can of Bud? I can buy a case on sale for $8.99 (that's 24 cans if you didn't know), that's $0.34 per can. $1000 will buy 2941 cans and at $0.08 per can is $235.00. Wow thanks, I just made more money!!

 

we get $.08 back here in CA? great!

 

except for the drinking piss part of it...