I wish I could zap this so much you feel static electricity.

That is very cool, and very sad. Have you ever tried to get his military record?

Wasn't until I read RdPd that the phrase 'the rich don't work for money, they make money work for them' really resonated with me

If you've got $10m and it earns 2% = $200K

That money figuratively gets up at 5am goes to work for 8hrs in a stuffy office with bad A/C drives home in rush hour traffic, while you wake up at 10am being fed grapes by a gorgeous blonde 🤣

I mean, he's not wrong.

I want to give you a taste of how tangled this web is and who you may (not) think is participating.

Let's take the Best Friends Animal Society - https://bestfriends.org/

Seems like a good cause, right? Keep reading...

Looking at Wikipedia, we can see that they were formerly called - Best Friends Animal Sanctuary; Foundation Faith of the Millennium; and Process Church of the Final Judgement.

Let's examine the Process Church as described in the book:

"In the early 1960s, two ranking members of the Church of Scientology—Robert Moore and Mary Anne MacLean, better known as the DeGrimstons—split off from London’s Hubbard Institute to form the Process Church of the Final Judgment *** —a group whose official logo is a modified swastika and whose literature included glowing tributes to Nazism, Satan, gore and necrophilia"

*** "A February 2004 report from Denver’s Rocky Mountain News revealed that the Process Church is alive and well today after a series of name changes (Lou Kilzer “Friends Find Their Calling,” February 28, 2004)."

STILL ALIVE AND WELL!?

"From its inception, the Process made no effort to hide its infatuation with death, destruction and cultural terrorism. .... Another essay that appeared in the official Process publication urged readers to experience the pleasures of grave robbing and necrophilia."

"The group, which still includes many original members, is now known to rub shoulders with various Hollywood celebrities."

"Author Michael Newton has written: “If law-enforcement spokesmen are correct, the cult is also deeply involved in white slavery, child pornography, and the international narcotics trade.”"

Absolutely insane, and I'm not saying this book should be taken as the gospel, but when you start to do your own fact-checking, and take into consideration some of the absurd sentencing some criminals receive now-a-days, it becomes more and more plausible that this world is a lot more fucked than you might imagine.

Listed. Thanks, fellow Stackie.

I almost got this yesterday and am taking this as a sign, thank you

Incidentally, I loved Ramit’s show on Netflix. So much so that I reviewed it on my IG

During a recent outing, I learnt that a friend had changed her job. Another friend chimed in to state that she had embarked on a job I would be interested in. Without missing a beat, I mentioned something about linking people and developing the capacity of rural communities. It turned out that my friend had undertaken a job with Providend. I guess I do have a keen interest in money because I binge-watched all 8 episodes of “How to Get Rich” on Netflix. What struck me most was the easy way in which Ramit Sethi interacted with his clients and people on the streets. Everyone just seemed to pour their financial worries on him. Yet he remained unfazed by it all, maintaining his clarity and giving good analogies and making people laugh. Honestly I hope to be like him. I love meeting people from all walks of life too. Though I doubt if many would be interested to learn from the expertise I have acquired wrt English Teaching all these years lol. The title of his show sounds crass but after realising how he relates his advice to the concept of a “rich life”, it kinda grew on me. Ramit Sethi met clients from a multitude of backgrounds in the show: soon-to-be-married couples, struggling couples, successful single millennials, a rich socialite. Their money worries are as varied as day and night, but Ramit puts everyone at ease, getting them to consolidate their finances and come up with a conscious spending plan and visualise their rich life. Over the course of the show, his clients develop a glow that’s compelling to watch. It’s amazing how people can turn their financial narrative around in just six weeks. And how Ramit manages them with a unique blend of sensitivity and assertiveness, getting them to shed their flawed money personalities and develop better money habits.