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    A secret to success...

    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.
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    Re: A secret to success...

    Originally posted by Sapiens View Post
    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?

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      Re: A secret to success...

      He is possibly loath to inform us, as that would reduce the sublime to the merely pedestrian.
      Last edited by Contemptuous; October 13, 2007, 09:47 PM.

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        Re: A secret to success...

        Originally posted by metalman View Post
        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?

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          Re: A secret to success...

          Originally posted by Andreuccio View Post
          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.

          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
          Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... By John Stuart Mill

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

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            Re: A secret to success...

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


            Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... By John Stuart Mill
            Thanks. I'll do some studying and get back to you.

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