| eburchelli:
You have it right.
When I was defrauded by a banker and his lawyers I studied law. I learned that there are two distinctly seperate bodies of law. One has to do with acquiring wealth (property). The second body of laws deals with keeping it.
There is an army of educated experts in law, finance, and the fine art of playing the system.
Lottery winners are usually desperately poor, uneducated, and often low IQ people who could never accumulate wealth on a level playing field.
There are just too many smart people taking advantage of the armies of dummies. It has always been so.
I learned what I needed to in order to play on that field. I am now happy. We have five lawyers in the family now, and that pig banker, and his lawyers, are now my bitches.
Like the Count of Monte Cristo, it can be done, but not without a lot of effort. There really is no free lunch.
Bill Gates would have been cleaned out a long time ago if he were not blessed with a rare combination of talents.
He is a techie geek with the business acumen of Genghis Kahn. That is almost unknown in history.
Most inventors are not even known. Bell got the patent for the phone because he was politically connected.
That's the system.
Not many even know - much less can play. |