Please, only somewhat intelligent replies on this post......

Rating: 8/10 (7 July 2006)

Okay guys here is a point that seems to be missed in every other post....
Ben and the others were in that massive treasure room for what, like a few minutes at most. Even if an hour or two or three or four Ben would never be able to come up with a true est. There was a lot of stuff down there. And oh my god, what about those scrolls!!!! You all know that just that piece of the full treasure would go for millions upon millions. Let's look at it this way. Here is a simple way to put it, Ben's 10 billion dollar bribe was tongue in cheek, an attempt at humor, playing off the whole finders keepers (even though Ben stole one of the most prized pieces of US History) idea. At the end when Riley is angered about the 1 percent we are led to assume it was of the 10 billion jokey dollar amount Ben gave. After a true evaluation of all the History was done the real amount would be given and I would say that they were getting 1 percent of double that 10 billion.
But hey, that is just my opinion.
PS. Ian would keep 10 Percent if offered (maybe figure a way to keep it all even, but think about it, he would have never been able to keep the extraction or the sale or the massive increase in Ian expenditures a secret) That is the sort of person Ian was Ben was a PhD. in what History and something from MIT. But most important he obviously loved US history and felt the founding fathers were onto something with the whole let the people choose thing. So if his main goal was to find the History the finders fee is relatively unimportant to Ben.
So look, read, and comment on this post. Especially the 10 billion part.