Originally Posted by mike_s

So, if I find a Ferrari on sale for $400,000 instead of $500,000, I'll be $100,000 richer if I buy it!

It's all BS.

Make a wheel with 4 spokes distributed evenly across 1/2 the circumference. Now see how much weight that wheel supports when the spokes are 1) on the top, 2) on the bottom.

Now build a wheel using fishing line for "spokes." Try and tell people that it's supported by the "spokes" at the bottom.

It should be perfectly clear to anyone with any common sense that the weight is supported by spokes in tension. Adding weight increases that tension. Anyone arguing that the spokes on the bottom somehow support that weight is playing fast and loose with terminology to make some nonsensical point.