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It’s good to remember, that there are the rich, and then their are the RICH. Although I’m not sure why it would be good to remember that. Kind of depressing really.
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Still at the restaurant, Picknar asked Thoos, “so, what was your good reason?” Thoos said, “blackmail. I received a letter, saying they were going to kill my parents in a couple of weeks unless I paid them off.” A bit skeptical, Picknar asked, “and the experiment was going to be enough to pay them?” Dismissive, Thoos said, “blatz, no. You and I were earning chump change. But it would allow me to clean up and go home respectably and tell my parents. They have the money. It’d be a drop in the bucket for them. But now I have no way of getting back and warning them.” Picknar asked, “what’s your last name anyhow?” Thoos replied “sigh. If you must know, ‘starslick.'” Amazed, Picknar shouted, “what? Really? Like, one of your parents is the actor? Wow, you do have a lot of money!”What?” Thoos said, “no. Not that pauper. My parents own Starslick Ship Manufacturing.” Picknar stared at Thoos, silent in shock, and then said, wide-eyed, “mind blown.” Knox leaned over to Rodrigo and asked, “are you following any of this?” Rodrigo replied, “just enough to feel entertained.”
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“‘Thoos Starslick’. Sounds like an alien porn star.”
“I told you I’m not related to that guy!”
If they’re that rich they’re probably perfectly fine with the security they already have. Sounds like a scheme to defraud the child.
I have a friend who presently is living in a castle in Manila. His company makes trade deals with China. I have a standing invitation to join him one Burning Man or the other to meet his friends Sergey and Larry. He makes a comfortable living.
But he’s actually floored by another of his friends, who owns and operates L’Eggs. The pantyhose king, essentially. Whose net worth makes my friend look like me. And my friend can’t figure out how he does it, making deals in many-digited sums, absorbing entire companies and digesting their work forces, spitting a lot of them out. How does he do it?
I told my friend that he’s too nice a guy to be that sort of rich guy. That to move that amount of money and that amount of production you have to be daring. And more than a little willing to see other people hurt if you gain from it. My friend is not that sort of person. He wishes he were more successful, but I’ve told him it would cost him a sizable portion of his soul, and he’d feel the loss like any other amputation. So he makes his trade deals, travels around the world, and wishes he were richer. And I sit here, knowing why he’s not, and remembering that it’s people like the pantyhose king who decide they don’t like, need or want all those people who aren’t working for them, and pay politicians to cheat, starve, and eventually deport them so they’re no longer a worry.
So yeah, it’s good to know that there are the rich, and then there are the RICH. And a small handful above that who have already built their doomsday bunkers in Argentina’s mountains and expect to exterminate the oceans of the poor who finally find them and demand survival, too. They won’t get it. And it’s vitally important that we understand such people exist, and the absolute depravity that keeps them intolerably wealthy and primed for the genocide many of them are in fact openly promoting and helping along. You’re just amoebas to them. One splash of enough chlorine and you’ll be gone. They’re just waiting for that moment. With great hope you’ll come and get it. From them.
Man, I hope Thoos can sort their problems out. Would hate for there to be some sort of Starslick Crisis.
Don’t forget the “merely wealthy”…