The Consecration of Wealth

Here’s his secret… while we were all preoccupied with who was consecrating himself king of the jungle, he just kept on concentrating on doing his own thing and now owns a whole lot of it. 

Tender Moments… throughout our country’s history, we’ve gone through various iterations of what’s called “legal tender” or sometimes referred to simply as “hand over your money” which most of us don’t do without a struggle, or protest, at least. But then there’s the economic laws and government’s role and policies  in the (re)distribution of what’s called at tax time, “earned income”…Then there’s the really tweet moments when, visiting your favorite watering hole, the one tending bar informs you “your money’s no good here - your drink is free, VIP”  (he probably owns it but might not want to own up to it, preferring to pose as one of us, for a change). 

The I,Robots have it… as the shareholders robotically voted to endorse his new compensation package. A “where were you when?” moment when the world’s richest man became (well, a now predictable eventuality) the first world’s trillionaire. A hysterical (spell check) moment that is recorded in earlier history by Carl Sagan "billions and billions of..." and presages one of my favorite childhood exclaims "gadzooks!" when he reaches what we can only imagine a "gazillion" looks like.  

Re-Deemable… “you can defer most of your earned income, stock options, until such a time you deem appropriate…”

Final Act of Definance… what could happen if the wealthiest man in the world took his brood and all the crude he could get his hands on, and leave, the face of the earth to the other world he purchased and on to start a tab at the Mars bar, while we all sit on the edge, of economic collapse.

An Ode saying..."They say you can't take it with you but this one-of-a-kind managed to take almost all of it and just go, without even giving notice..." It's what you can do if you're the owner.