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HOW TO GET RICH!!!
Posted by Agit8r • 10/25/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: corporatocracy, Delusions, feudalism, sad state of affairs
Find a benefactor in the halls of government... DUH!
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Become a sex toy for Ivy League college girls with grandfather fixations. -
It's not hard to get rich but the world takes more -
Create your own definition of "rich."-
yes, true. I was referring to monied wealth in my OP, though
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R-Right
I-Investment
C-Capital
H-Help!
To get rich we need to invest in the right place at the right. I will also need huge CAPITAL to make up the loses lightly in the first years.
Therefore I need HELP. I'll ask Obama. He can change me cos I believe in my dream -
you want Obama to be your benefactor? Good luck with that
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NP, I thought you might enjoy this passage from Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments"
' The poor man's son, whom heaven in its anger has visited with ambition, when he begins to look around him, admires the condition of the rich. He finds the cottage of his father too small for his accommodation, and fancies he should be lodged more at his ease in a palace. He is displeased with being obliged to walk a-foot, or to endure the fatigue of riding on horseback. He sees his superiors carried about in machines, and imagines that in one of these he could travel with less inconveniency. He feels himself naturally indolent, and willing to serve himself with his own hands as little as possible; and judges, that a numerous retinue of servants would save him from a great deal of trouble. He thinks if he had attained all these, he would sit still contentedly, and be quiet, enjoying himself in the thought of the happiness and tranquillity of his situation. He is enchanted with the distant idea of this felicity. It appears in his fancy like the life of some superior rank of beings, and, in order to arrive at it, he devotes himself for ever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness. To obtain the conveniencies which these afford, he submits in the first year, nay in the first month of his application, to more fatigue of body and more uneasiness of mind than he could have suffered through the whole of his life from the want of them. He studies to distinguish himself in some laborious profession. With the most unrelenting industry he labours night and day to acquire talents superior to all his competitors. He endeavours next to bring those talents into public view, and with equal assiduity solicits every opportunity of employment. For this purpose he makes his court to all mankind; he serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises. Through the whole of his life he pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity that is at all times in his power, and which, if in the extremity of old age he should at last attain to it, he will find to be in no respect preferable to that humble security and contentment which he had abandoned for it. It is then, in the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments which he imagines he has met with from the injustice of his enemies, or from the perfidy and ingratitude of his friends, that he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys; and like them too, more troublesome to the person who carries them about with him than all the advantages they can afford him are commodious. There is no other real difference between them, except that the conveniencies of the one are somewhat more observable than those of the other. The palaces, the gardens, the equipage, the retinue of the great, are objects of which the obvious conveniency strikes every body. They do not require that their masters should point out to us wherein consists their utility. Of our own accord we readily enter into it, and by sympathy enjoy and thereby applaud the satisfaction which they are fitted to afford him. But the curiosity of a tooth-pick, of an ear-picker, of a machine for cutting the nails, or of any other trinket of the same kind, is not so obvious. Their conveniency may perhaps be equally great, but it is not so striking, and we do not so readily enter into the satisfaction of the man who possesses them. They are therefore less reasonable subjects of vanity than the magnificence of wealth and greatness; and in this consists the sole advantage of these last. They more effectually gratify that love of distinction so natural to man. To one who was to live alone in a desolate island it might be a matter of doubt, perhaps, whether a palace, or a collection of such small conveniencies as are commonly contained in a tweezer-case, would contribute most to his happiness and enjoyment. If he is to live in society, indeed, there can be no comparison, because in this, as in all other cases, we constantly pay more regard to the sentiments of the spectator, than to those of the person principally concerned, and consider rather how his situation will appear to other people, than how it will appear to himself. If we examine, however, why the spectator distinguishes with such admiration the condition of the rich and the great, we shall find that it is not so much upon account of the superior ease or pleasure which they are supposed to enjoy, as of the numberless artificial and elegant contrivances for promoting this ease or pleasure. He does not even imagine that they are really happier than other people: but he imagines that they possess more means of happiness. And it is the ingenious and artful adjustment of those means to the end for which they were intended, that is the principal source of his admiration. But in the languor of disease and the weariness of old age, the pleasures of the vain and empty distinctions of greatness disappear. To one, in this situation, they are no longer capable of recommending those toilsome pursuits in which they had formerly engaged him. In his heart he curses ambition, and vainly regrets the ease and the indolence of youth, pleasures which are fled for ever, and which he has foolishly sacrificed for what, when he has got it, can afford him no real satisfaction. In this miserable aspect does greatness appear to every man when reduced either by spleen or disease to observe with attention his own situation, and to consider what it is that is really wanting to his happiness. Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body, consisting of springs the most nice and delicate, which must be kept in order with the most anxious attention, and which in spite of all our care are ready every moment to burst into pieces, and to crush in their ruins their unfortunate possessor. ' -
Thanks, Agit. That's wonderful. It's an attitude that's hard to find here in the West today and certainly one I share.
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Agit8r
I am just joking -
it would be nice if Smith's modern "Greed is Good" disciples were more familiar with such :'|
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yeah, i figured...
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Its much more ass-glorious to die trying-
form what I understand, some people have a fetish for such behavior.
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Ya.. exactly
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become a congressman or a congressal lobbyist.That is one way to get rich quick.There is no other way to get rich in America.-
well some are born rich... some discover the path of cronyism... but otherwise, yeah
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I'd take just a regular job now -
Man says "How do you get rich?"
Master says" A great question like that deserves a great answer."
Man says "So How do I do it?"
Master says "You don't" -
Outsource... I'm sorry but it's true... don't kill the messanger. -
Can a brotha get a job? 8-( -
Marry a rich doctor, preferably old
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that gives you everything you "seeked"?
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It depends, I would need to be sure he has liquid assets, ya know!
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That is so childish! -
crpitt you said
That is so childish!
I don't understand this, can explain? -
It is like you are saying you want to marry a rich doctor, perhaps you have fantasied about this?
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What lead you to think I was talking about myself? you can think as you please
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you can try this and see where it take you. ppl.blastoffnetwork.com/tinamatkinson22
at least you can have fun trying. -
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write a book " how to get rich"
All these type of make the writer rich but don't work for the readers.-
Spot on.
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www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/if-you-want-to-get-rich-you-start-a-relig...
If you want to get rich, you start a religion.-
All hail PolyBore
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Or, spend less money than you take in.
I'll admit: It's more of a 'generational' approach than most. But it does work. "Rich?" Maybe not: but we haven't starved, or been caught outside in winter; yet.-
no. I'm talking about 7-houses-rich!
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Agit8r,
Ah: that. It could take many generations, using my approach. And the willingness to put up with the trade-offs that wealth requires.
I'm quite willing to put up with wealth "galore" - what it used to mean - go leor - "enough". And for most of my forebears, to have food and shelter go leor was to have material things galore indeed.
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