http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2008/07/16/great-financial-rant/ Living Planet Mystery Tales Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:28:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2008/07/16/great-financial-rant/#comment-1507 K.J. Webb Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:12:07 +0000 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/?p=526#comment-1507 The reference to the great tulip mania of the 17th century shows that nothing is new under the sun. People with money are always either smugly counting their capital gains like old Scrooge McDuck, who liked to bathe in his horde of coins, or they're terror-struck by the awful thought that they're about to lose it all to short-sellers or the Beagle Boys. They got no perspective. Their minds aren't right. The effort of a rational person ought to be to absent himself from that little game. Cast a cold eye on filthy lucre and you won't mind losing the stuff (or have that much to lose in the first place!). In the end we're all going to lose our lives and the lives of those we love. That's about as much loss as I can handle or care about. Losses in the financial world are a necessary part of any economy, the econonists say. If that's so, then let other folks, if they must, defenestrate themselves for the good of us all. I got other fish to fry. The reference to the great tulip mania of the 17th century shows that nothing is new under the sun. People with money are always either smugly counting their capital gains like old Scrooge McDuck, who liked to bathe in his horde of coins, or they’re terror-struck by the awful thought that they’re about to lose it all to short-sellers or the Beagle Boys. They got no perspective. Their minds aren’t right. The effort of a rational person ought to be to absent himself from that little game. Cast a cold eye on filthy lucre and you won’t mind losing the stuff (or have that much to lose in the first place!). In the end we’re all going to lose our lives and the lives of those we love. That’s about as much loss as I can handle or care about. Losses in the financial world are a necessary part of any economy, the econonists say. If that’s so, then let other folks, if they must, defenestrate themselves for the good of us all. I got other fish to fry.

]]> http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/2008/07/16/great-financial-rant/#comment-1506 K.J. Webb Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:05:52 +0000 http://jhfarr.com/farrfeed/?p=526#comment-1506 The reference to the great tulip mania shows that nothing is new under the sun. The trouble with people with money is that they're either smugly counting their capital gains like old Scrooge McDuck, who liked to bathe in his horde of coins, or they're terror-struck by the awful thought that they're about to lose it all to short-sellers or the Beagle Boys. The effort of a rational person ought to be to absent himself from that little game. Cast a cold eye on filthy lucre and you won't mind losing the stuff (or have that much to lose in the first place!). In the end we're all going to lose our lives and the lives of those we love. That's about as much loss as I can handle or care about. Losses in the financial world are a necessary part of any economy, the econonists say. If that's so, then I say let other folks, if they must, defenistrate themselves for the common good. I got other fish to fry. The reference to the great tulip mania shows that nothing is new under the sun. The trouble with people with money is that they’re either smugly counting their capital gains like old Scrooge McDuck, who liked to bathe in his horde of coins, or they’re terror-struck by the awful thought that they’re about to lose it all to short-sellers or the Beagle Boys. The effort of a rational person ought to be to absent himself from that little game. Cast a cold eye on filthy lucre and you won’t mind losing the stuff (or have that much to lose in the first place!). In the end we’re all going to lose our lives and the lives of those we love. That’s about as much loss as I can handle or care about. Losses in the financial world are a necessary part of any economy, the econonists say. If that’s so, then I say let other folks, if they must, defenistrate themselves for the common good. I got other fish to fry.

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