A secret to success... [Archive]

Sapiens

10-11-07, 08:37 AM

I am sitting in my large, comfortable leather chair
with a smug grin on my face, while Pink Floyd’s
“Another brick in the wall” plays in the background. I
have a spectacular view of the empire’s financial
metropolis which never ceases to amaze me. I have told
Ms. Spencer that I am not to be disturbed under any
circumstance for the next forty-five minutes.

See, I have taken those forty-five minutes to silently
gloat and bask in the glory of my most recent
acquisition. Ah, sweet is the secret of my success,
knowing how to use man’s addiction to their beliefs.

Wake up.

metalman

10-11-07, 10:57 AM

I am sitting in my large, comfortable leather chair
with a smug grin on my face, while Pink Floyd’s
“Another brick in the wall” plays in the background. I
have a spectacular view of the empire’s financial
metropolis which never ceases to amaze me. I have told
Ms. Spencer that I am not to be disturbed under any
circumstance for the next forty-five minutes.

See, I have taken those forty-five minutes to silently
gloat and bask in the glory of my most recent
acquisition. Ah, sweet is the secret of my success,
knowing how to use man’s addiction to their beliefs.

Wake up.

ok, i'll bite... what did you acquire?

Lukester

10-11-07, 02:11 PM

He is possibly loath to inform us, as that would reduce the sublime to the merely pedestrian. :D

Andreuccio

10-12-07, 12:56 PM

ok, i'll bite... what did you acquire?

More interesting is what belief man is addicted to and how to "use it". That's a conversation I'd like to have.

Sapiens?

Sapiens

10-14-07, 02:16 PM

More interesting is what belief man is addicted to and how to "use it". That's a conversation I'd like to have.

Sapiens?

Fractional reserve banking. Also the misunderstanding of credit as John Stuart Mills explains in "Principles of Political Economy" Book III, Chapter XI.

<A href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7LUJAAAAIAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA361&ots=G3A5FWHXNi&dq=%22banker%27s+credit%22&pg =RA1-PA347&ci=39,1270,962,325&source=bookclip"><IMG height=194 alt="CHAPTER XI OF CREDIT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MONEY I THE functions of credit have been a subject of as much misunderstanding and as much confusion of ideas as any single topic in Political Economy This is not owing to any peculiar difficulty in the theory of the subject but to the complex nature of some of the mercantile phenomena arising from the forms in which credit clothes itself by which attention is diverted from the properties of credit in general to the peculiarities of its particular forms " src="http://books.google.com/books?id=7LUJAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA347&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=s3ap9IoReYxt-DHRvQNors84BQ0&ci=39,1270,962,325&edge=1" width=553 border=0></A><br/><A href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7LUJAAAAIAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA361&ots=G3A5FWHXNi&dq=%22banker%27s+credit%22&pg =RA1-PA347&ci=39,1270,962,325&source=bookclip">Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... By John Stuart Mill</A>

attention is diverted from the properties of credit in general to the peculiarities of its particular forms

Andreuccio

10-14-07, 09:14 PM

Fractional reserve banking. Also the misunderstanding of credit as John Stuart Mills explains in "Principles of Political Economy" Book III, Chapter XI.

http://books.google.com/books?id=7LUJAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA347&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=s3ap9IoReYxt-DHRvQNors84BQ0&ci=39,1270,962,325&edge=1 (http://books.google.com/books?id=7LUJAAAAIAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA361&ots=G3A5FWHXNi&dq=%22banker%27s+credit%22&pg=RA1-PA347&ci=39,1270,962,325&source=bookclip)
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... By John Stuart Mill (http://books.google.com/books?id=7LUJAAAAIAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA361&ots=G3A5FWHXNi&dq=%22banker%27s+credit%22&pg=RA1-PA347&ci=39,1270,962,325&source=bookclip)

Thanks. I'll do some studying and get back to you.