Lateral Thinking Puzzles

4. A man buys rice at $1 a pound from American growers and sells them at $0.05 a pound in India. As a result of this he becomes a millionaire. How come?

Added 1 January 2007

Hint: This really could happen, and probably does in some form or other.
Solution: The man is a philanthropist who bought great quantities of rice to sell to poor people at prices they could afford. He started out as a billionaire, but lost so much money in his good works that he became a millionaire!

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Anonymous 30 October 2012

Aren't the American growers upset at being sold in India?

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