Sublime

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Breaking Out the Benjamins Who goeth a borrowing, goeth a sorrowing … A fool and his money are soon parted. —THOMAS TUSSER, SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH FARMER AND POET

As to why there are no millionaires, it is a mystery, and best studied among the mysteries of the Middle Ages. By some of the dark ingenuities of that age of priestcraft a curious thing was discovered–that if you kill every usurer, every forestaller, every adulterater, every user of false weights, every fixer of false boundaries, every land-thief,

distinct elements, of which population is the first, real property the second, and personal property the third.

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

untrammelled money-grubbing was a way of life – nay, a raison d’être. Furthermore it didn’t matter how the rich made their pile: waste disposal, trailer parks, sex toys, plastic forks, rubber doorstops, pornographic magazines, torture equipment, edible goldfish, mines, contraceptive sheaths, trading in widows and orphans, it . . . just . . . didn’t

Money is fungible. Every dollar is the same. It doesn’t matter where money comes from—our job, an inheritance, a lottery ticket, a bank robbery, or our gig moonlighting as the bassist in a jazz quartet (dare to dream)—the money is all ours and it belongs, in fact, to the general “our money” account.

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