Money ? Money !

If you don’t have it, you want it.
If you’ve got some, you want more.
If you’ve got plenty, it will start multiplying and you get more automatically.

Thats why they say "the first million is the hardest". Talking about millions, there used to be a competition among cities about who had the most millionaires. I think New York was leading the world with something like 200 millionaires per acre. Thanks to economic progress we are now on to a higher level - billionaires/acre.

If you have no money, you are nothing. Having no money is a crime. But you’re actually worse off than a criminal: Without money you get no food, housing, clothes, medical care, nor an education. If you’re lucky, you’ll get some food vouchers.

If you have money, you’ve got two problems: You need to make sure 1) that its ‘old’ money so that you belong to the money aristocracy, and 2) that it is kept safe, because the companion of greed is fear. For solutions to both issues please see my treatise on Money Laundering. If you have no money, don’t bother.

Assuming you have plenty of money, may I ask: Are you super rich, filthy rich, or are you just plain ordinary rich ? This is important for my next ponderings. In case you don’t know where you belong, here is a nice rule of thumb:
"If you can still count your money, you’re not really rich" (John D Rockefeller).

How does one get really rich ? Not from working, nor from saving. So how do you do it ? Well, you just take it from the other guy. Be a ‘Robber Baron’ .

There is only so much money to go around. If A gets more, B will have less. Simple. Put in another way: Your gain will be my loss. Conversely: If you have less, I or somebody else will have more - your money. If someone tries to talk you into a ‘Win-Win’ deal, run. He is about to shaft you.

But hang on, you say, what about those visionary entrepreneurs who ‘add value’ and ‘create wealth’ ? Sounds nice, but it’s actually a sham. But... but... you are saying.. what about Henry Phord, Macrohard Inc., the mighty Ekson company – surely they have created incredible wealth for their employees and shareholders ? Yes, they have - for their shareholders, ie themselves. The confusion – I think – comes from the famous ‘value added’ propagated by the economist clowns . I’ll have none of this nonsense. A’s gain is B’s pain. Full stop.

There was a time when people were preoccupied with love, hate, religion, or politics. Money was only a means to an end. People had dreams. Today – sadly - money is the end. It makes you narrow, single-minded, poor. All you have left is an obsession.

So, if you want to get really, seriously rich, you need to be "amoral, ruthless, pathologically selfish and utterly unburdened by qualms of conscience. You find a lot of these folks in prisons..[and].. in corporate boardrooms ...".

PS: Not much we can do about.
But we can still improve the rest of the World.