I thought space needed to be dedicated to something that pervades our lives so incessantly and intensely.
Abba sang about it. So did Petey Pablo and several others. Oprah Winfrey, The Rolling Stones and Bill Gates have plenty. The Forbes List regularly updates its list about who does.
It's taboo, in the sense that you never speak about salaries, inheritence or even penury for that matter. If you do, it always happens behind closed doors, if you've noticed. Business meetings, for example.
Many of us would recall gangster movies (Bollywood for us back home) where underhanded financial transactions were always conduted through black, ominous looking briefcases stacked with piles of cash. It was a tacit rule to merely flash the moolah over the table very quickly. Again, an example of a financial transaction carried out in utmost secrecy.
It's an art to know how to tip waiters and valet attendants - a quick handshake during which a crisp bill is exchanged. The world is oblivious. Only the two of you know.
Whether you choose to be a slave to money or not, you make a statement. A very strong one at that.
The Sensex is closely monitored. The words 'Sale', 'Free' and the like hold special meaning and importance in our society.
Money talks. No. correction. It's a blabbermouth. It has verbal diarrhea. Nothing can mke it shut up.
Money spells power, fame and quite often disaster. It's really about managing it right. The key funda being making it work for you rather than the other way around. Invest smartly people!
Anyone who says they don't need money is lying. Most of all to themselves.
It's a fact. It's best to admit it.
The world is officially money crazy.
1 comment:
well yea, the entire world is money crazy. we all are, to a certain extent
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