For a minute there I thought I had to get off my couch, when all the while the fact is we don't have to do anything much but keep things afloat for just a few decades more! In fact, we'd best shut up about PO, because if our offspring finds out we knew about it all along, they'll turn and wring our necks come 2036!
Joined: Nov 01, 2005 Posts: 796 Location: Euro high horse bastard on the run
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: Re: Is AIRBUS crazy?`
skeptik wrote:
Windmills wrote:
And I was lead to believe that people are rich and in control of lots of money because they're smart and industrious...
Nope.. People are rich and control ever more money because they were rich and controlled lots of money..
Mostly they employ clever people who arent rich to do their thinking for them - accountants, investment advisors. The system's rigged that way, increasingly so since the end of the sixties. Wealth is concentrated into ever fewer and richer hands.
Rich remain ever so rich, because they often employ the strategy of hard core diversification*. When you have assets in cash, stocks, commodities, art, real estate, government, and all that scattered around the globe you are:
The best analogy is to the position of a bookmaker in the gambling operation. You hardly ever lose a dime in the overall equation.
Obviously, this isn't bullet proof in the 100s/1000s year span of various grand history realignments but much better than the rat race J6P is made born/die in to..
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* There are in fact two basic rules they teach you in average billionaire family clan:
1/ Get to the top at whatever price - taking no prisoners (usually already achieved by the family elders/ancestors)
2/ Keep that position by whatever means - in practice hang on to that above mentioned "diversification strategy" _________________ DOOMerotron: at all-time high [8.1] out of 10..
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