How to be a successful businessman, but not a success. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
I was downtown last Thursday and ended up with an hour to kill before my train home, so I went down the station’s back stairs and around the corner to Jay’s Bar. It was almost six o’clock, so the crowd was a mix of corporate suits buying expensive vodka, tradesmen enjoying decent beer, and jobless neighborhood guys drinking cheap beer. I ordered something inoffensive and watched to see if any of my old Cypherpunk pals would show up.
But instead, my oldest nemesis showed up, whom I’ll call Jerry. I went to school with Jerry and whatever I did, he was always desperate to do better. The crazy thing was that we were almost the same guy: We played the same positions in sports; we were both crossing guards; and we were equally skilled at almost everything we did. We should have been buddies, but instead, Jerry was my permanent opponent. I never hated him and he never really hated me, but whatever I did, he had to do better.
I hadn’t run into Jerry in ten years, and the last time I saw him, he was trading coffee futures. We greeted each other; then, he sat down and ordered a better drink than mine. He asked what I was doing lately. I did not mention that I was writing – this job is strange enough without Jerry turning it into a win-lose game. Instead, I said that I was managing a few companies.
“Are they big companies?” he asked.
“Nah, they’re small.”
He got a disgusted look on his face, and I knew immediately what it was – he was disappointed that beating me wasn’t going to be a challenge.
Back in 2020 I saw a fascist flatbed truck on the interstate.
It was hauling a bundle of rods. (rimshot)
If anyone thinks banks aren’t part of the most worthless useless traitorous government in human history just try to open one.
If you are a noticer you will see the bundle of rods on money and coinage.
Also on the wall at government temples.
That scene in the Snowden movie where the spook says the people don’t want freedom like a nonchalant Sean Connery as 007 is up there with comrade kommissar Danilov’s breakdown of why there will never be a New Man workers utopia at the end of Enemy at the Gates.