It is interesting that the so called “Captains of Industry” (also referred to as the “Robber Barons”) all lacked formal education. Even Bill Gates was a drop out who never finished a degree, yet he too funds education. Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, never made it past third grade and others never finished grammar school. Yet, these were men who built major universities and constantly promoted the virtues of higher education. The traditional idea is that these men understood the advantages of being educated as opposed to their own experience of “learning the hard way”. However, it is far more likely they realized that without conformity to a system, others would soon realize the very same thing about success they had and this knowledge would increase the competition. There is an ancient story about a child full of promise, so intelligent, that his parents and teachers encouraged him to take an equal interest in anything that caught his eye, whenever he showed he was attracted to it. Years later, after having tried a hundred different arts and all the customary roads to success, he was penniless and miserable; so he decided to take a job. He found himself in the office of a billionaire whom he soon saw was fairly stupid and capable of understanding only one idea at a time. ‘You can have the job’ said the billionaire. ‘Thank you’ replied the brilliant man, ‘but I would like to ask you just one question’. ‘And what is that?’ ‘I have read a great deal about you; how you understand everything you see, and how your extraordinary energy and wide interests have made you what you are. But I don’t find you to be like that at all. Furthermore, I have tried since I was a child to be like that and – look at me. ‘Don’t take it to hard son’ replied the tycoon; ‘but billionaires like me pay people to write things like that. First, it flatters us; secondly, it ensures us a good supply of labor like yourself, people who never made the grade.’

I have learned to use real estate as a way to gain wealth and that to avoid stocks,bonds and mutual funds altogether.Maybe by age 66 I will be a millionaire.For now I am retired and no longer need a JOB to survive.I am learning once again to do things at my own pace and to think for myself.
www.lifestylesunlimited.com will be my mentor.And I want to start their program in 2 and 1/2 years.triffid

DJI is going down,down,down. I love it!!!!! You gotta love a home garden!! Fuckm they all deserve whats comn

DJI is going down,down,down. I love it!!!!! You gotta love a home garden!! Fuckm they all deserve whats comn

 
     Imagine if it went so low they had to close the whole thing down.  Who would suffer.  It is illegal to run a gaming operation unless licensed by the state.   But you can gamble anywhere anytime with a number of different bookies who call themselves financial investment firms.  Insurance companies are the biggest bookies around.  They take your premium money pay as few claims as they can welch on as many as they can and play the stock market with the balance.  Bush and Obama and their band of thieves took peoples hard earned money and gave it to underwriters.  The underwriters couldnt pay the claims and still can not pay the claims on bad paper.  Who gives a fuck how many underwriters go south. Who cares how many mortgage holders go south. If there isnt some bagman knocking on your door every month you could go out and spur an economy based on goods and services rendered for reasonable profit instead of slaving away for some debt salesman.  I think it would be best if everybody just stopped paying any debt at all.  This would bring such chaos to financial markets  (yes they do buy and sell your contracts)  that they would all fold.  Every fucking last one of them.  With nobody to support them they would join the unemployment ranks.  Then their vast skills of bullshit peddling could be employed with speaking their bullshit to plants in the fields as they harvest crops for people that need food not debt.  The bullshit would enhance the growth of the plant instead of the growth of the national debt.  So if Obama wants to stimulate the economy just forgive all debt along with investment into infrastructure agriculture energy and transportation and stop giving our earnings away to thieves and murderers.
    He wont though he is owned and operated.  Fucking tool. 

Very, good, x00013, but if you have a garden, then be prepared to defend it with your life when the economy crashes.  That means a gun and ammo in large quantities.  Someone hungry will see the garden unless you hide it, somehow.

--Lee

very, good, big minok, then x would have strange meat to go with those veggies... and it doesn't necessarily mean a gun, there are other ways to 'skin a snake'.

  BigM
    I thought x was talking about the Dow Jones Industrial Average. ...

He probably was.

...   People will still have money if they have meaningful employment. ...

Not if the economy totally crashes.  No money at all.  The same thing happened in Rome before the Dark Ages.  German Teutonic barbarians sacked the city.
For the rest of your post:  I agree in principle.  However, barter will probably be all that's left unless there's widespread social chaos with bloodshed.  Barter works on a small scale, which, hopefully, people will practice instead of killing each other.

... Why should someone get paid for gambling even when he loses.

Gambling is a civilized pastime and a business, yes?  When the economy crashes, it's all over for 'gambling.'  Survival will be the only game in town that people will play.

--Lee

Have some fun, call your stock broker, tell them you want to buy rice.

I found this website on chemistry.Its a forum actually.This thread may not be the right one for it but I wanted to leave a link here somewhere. http://sciencemadness.org/talk/