Comments on: Why $500,000 a year is just NOT ENOUGH, y’all http://schizoamerica.com/2009/02/why-500000-a-year-is-just-not-enough-yall/ You have to walk your talk, America Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben Tremblay http://schizoamerica.com/2009/02/why-500000-a-year-is-just-not-enough-yall/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Ben Tremblay Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:03:47 +0000 http://schizoamerica.com/?p=821#comment-143 While looking into GATT abuses it occurred to me that forensic accounting could be good fun. (That was shortly after we tumbled Allende's democratically elected gov't in Chile. I had been in uniform, interdicting Soviet assets. I was pretty much PO'd.) Three decades later, the same thought arises. Not that there's any more interest, but it comes up ... cuz I'm dead stubborn. (Infantry instincts?) Anecdotally: I heard an interview, quite lengthy and in-depth, with a young man who, a couple of years out of university, got into brokering ?what's the term? collateralized debt derivatives. He was making between $70K and $100K ... per month. Ok, his bubble only lasted 2 or 3 years. Yaa, right. Think his house is being foreclosed? Think he's grasping at straws? The psychopaths' sychophants have been richly rewarded, and well. Yuppies spent themselves into a hole. It's very like becoming a billionaire by flogging a crappy OS. (Bill Gates as benevolent ... how freakin'ironic is that?!) While looking into GATT abuses it occurred to me that forensic accounting could be good fun. (That was shortly after we tumbled Allende’s democratically elected gov’t in Chile. I had been in uniform, interdicting Soviet assets. I was pretty much PO’d.)

Three decades later, the same thought arises. Not that there’s any more interest, but it comes up … cuz I’m dead stubborn. (Infantry instincts?)

Anecdotally: I heard an interview, quite lengthy and in-depth, with a young man who, a couple of years out of university, got into brokering ?what’s the term? collateralized debt derivatives.
He was making between $70K and $100K … per month.

Ok, his bubble only lasted 2 or 3 years.
Yaa, right.
Think his house is being foreclosed? Think he’s grasping at straws?

The psychopaths’ sychophants have been richly rewarded, and well.
Yuppies spent themselves into a hole.
It’s very like becoming a billionaire by flogging a crappy OS. (Bill Gates as benevolent … how freakin’ironic is that?!)

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