Read this story, then just look at the face in the photograph.
What sort of people can 'admire' a creature like this simply because he was lucky enough to get rich for a while?
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3 comments:
I got the heebies upon seeing the photograph, read the article, and then reluctantly looked at the face in the photograph again. Couldn't he have bought himself a swimming pool and swim everyday with all the money he had made even though he might not have been able to hire a personal trainer (which personal trainer would want to train that creature...) or else he could have tried horse riding with all the horses he had been buying - although on second thoughts I wouldn't have wanted any horse to be saddled with that creature. There are mighty few things I'm sure of in life - but absolutely no amount of money could be worth being him.
I wonder how any human being would or could even want to 'admire' this creature.
I wonder who should win the 'award' - the 82 year old model from that other post of yours or this creature here.
I don't want to write this in the same breath but I couldn't help but be reminded of the sudden image from Three Comrades where Pat and Robby are cracking jokes while walking down a semi-dark street (I think it was) and wondering how the wrong creatures seem to somehow become rich or are rich and yet don't even know what to do with their money - and that was some 90 years ago.
Thanks a lot though for putting up this most unexpected post when you did. Strangely enough it cheered me up in a way when I suddenly found it.
The positive out of stories like these is that these retards have been successfully kept away from real and serious work and trades like electrical work which requires some skill, training and a minimum requirement of brains. These creatures have what's called negative productivity- if they work then it takes more work to undo and fix what they do. Hope this guy's get-rich-quick scam leaves him enough money so that he doesn't have to go back to real work and keeps society out of hazards and dangers.
I put up this post (as the ones titled "The worship of the wealthy" and "Poor little rich thug" on the other blog) just to underscore the fact that all over the world, hundreds of thousands of mugs like this keep suddenly getting rich - thanks to nothing more than a permissive political climate, and a combination of no higher personal qualities than singleminded pursuit of pelf, a certain looseness of morals, and a great deal of luck. Brainy tycoons who have done plenty of good to mankind are actually as rare as snow in a desert. Which makes me wonder what is wrong with mankind that most people worship the wealthy so much, given that most rich men are such pathetic specimens, whether you go by looks or brains, muscles or morals!
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