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And two identical boats come in. And one is run by Sam and the other is run by Dave. Now they are both carrying white agricultural products. Now Sam actually has sugar, and he comes in and he unloads his sugar and sells it to the sugar wholesaler. And he has got some expenses. He pays his crew. He’s got to pay for the growing and the transport of the sugar. He has a wonderful weekend with his wife and he pays himself a little bit of a bonus. He also, you know, he buys some new harvest equipment, invests a little bit more in his business.
He pays his taxes. And then I get, you know, if he’s working his butt off, he’s probably got about five or 10% profit that he’s then going to put in the bank. And that’s his business. Now Dave has an identical boat, and he also has a lot of white agricultural products. And Catherine talks about how this back in the day was heroin, and then it changed to cocaine. And today who knows what it is, but I think you get the general idea. Dave is the drug man. Now Dave comes in, and he also sells his drugs to some wholesaler.
Now Dave is selling his agricultural product for 50 times to 100 times more than what Sam the sugar guy was. And Dave has a few more expenses, but he pays his crew. He also pays for the growing and the transport of his white agricultural substance. He also has a really nice weekend with his wife in New Orleans, pays himself a little bit of a bonus. He also buys some harvest equipment and some radar equipment. And he has a few other extra expenses. He does need to pay off maybe some magistrates, definitely a few law enforcement officers, possibly some intelligence agencies.
He has several law firms on retainer that he needs to work with. And then he does not pay taxes, but he does have to pay fees for laundering money. There is a whole business of laundering money, but the fees for laundering money are much less than taxes. So Dave is actually coming out way ahead, and he gets to put into his bank account for his profit at least 20%, 30% of what putting into his bank. And so these are the two businesses that Sam and Dave have, and they repeat it. They go back and do boatload after boatload after boatload.
Now, some years have gone by. Let me ask you some questions. Who is going to get laid more? Is it going to be Sam the sugar man or Dave the drug man? Who’s going to be most popular with the banks? Who’s going to have the bigger bank account and the more transactions? Sam or Dave? Who’s going to have the bigger stock market portfolio? Sam or Dave? Who is going to be able to donate to political campaigns with greater contribution and have greater influence for affecting laws and legislation? Sam or Dave? Whose wife is going to get to donate more money to charities and get more involved in the social scene and move up through that whole network? Who’s going to have more prestigious law firms and have more access to mitigating the legal system? Which banks, who do the banks really prefer to work with more? Do they want to work with Sam or do they want to work with Dave? Like who’s got the most money coming and going? When it comes time to sell their businesses, who’s going to buy whose business? Will Sam have the money to buy Dave’s business or will Dave have the money to buy Sam’s business and what banks are going to finance that? Well, who’s going to have the most influence with the banks? And then whose kids are going to go to Harvard and whose kids are going to get the job with Goldman Sachs? So yeah, that’s been going on and on and on and on.
And that’s where we are right now. And I have to tell you when I read this story, I was in Dallas at the time. And Dallas is the black tie event, the charity balls, the galas and the extravaganza. And I just suddenly had me see that whole scene with a different light and a different viewpoint. So when you see all this stuff with some of these philanthropists and some of these things going on and some of these businessmen who are astonishingly successful, yeah, now eventually they have been going and going and going.
And we’re at the point where we are now where almost everything is completely taken over. So beautiful story. Thank you so much, Catherine, for writing it. It really helped me to very succinctly see what’s going on in the world. And I hope that also helps you to really clarify how business works in this world. Okay, we can fix it, though. We’re at a point where things are about to change. And when people say, Marjorie, are you excited about collapse? I say yes, I am, because I think that a lot of that whole structure is going to fall out as we go through this apocalypse.
Okay. When we do go through this, you are going to need some basic self-reliance. This is Marjorie. I’m going to do a pitch for backyardfoodproduction.com. Definitely go there. I’ll show you how to grow food. And yeah. Anyway, we’ll talk to you later. [tr:trw].
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