from: Bloodstone43956@i-mail.irs
to: Raventrap39996@i-mail.irs
date: 7518.35556
My Dear Raventrap ~
Your point about the seduction of money is important to note. As that bothersome Book says, “for the love of money is the root of all evil.” Indeed, if we want our clients to “love” anything, it is surely money. As you know from your studies, we understand this kind of “love” extremely well and can really sell it, unlike whatever Our Competitor defines as “love.” Try as we might to uncover it, His definition of this word is impenetrable to us. Be that as it may, there is much more to the phrase, “the love of money,” than first meets the eye.
Raventrap, you must learn the full significance of the expression, “my money,” as we have promoted it for centuries. “My money” is not limited to mere currency or even the so-called “creation of wealth.” It is the conflation of many mistaken ideas and misconceptions ~ an over-arching ~ or I should say, an under-arching connection between having money and being valuable. Our Competitor of course likes to keep questions of money and value separated, to foster clear thinking about such tedious ideas as “dignity” and “compassion.” On the other hand, Our Executive stands to gain a great deal if our clients confuse value with money, time with the calendar, or living well with what pays well. In short, the love of money involves the supposition, undeniably the myth, that everyone who has managed to acquire a lot of money, power, or fame somehow deserves it, and conversely, those who don’t have these things are generally not worth as much as those who do. “My money” often plays out as follows: The more one of our clients makes, the more he is worth, and the more he is worth, the more he must know, and the more he knows, the more influence he must have, and the more influence he has, the more he can justifiably get away with. In other words, he becomes more and more convinced the rules don’t apply to him because he is rich. One of their minor philosophers put it best, “When you’re rich they think you really know.”
Money leads to power, and power cycles back to more money. The goal of “my money” is thus to perpetuate a philosophy rooted in winning at any cost ~ including the cost of our clients’ contracts ~ but don’t let them know that until it’s too late! Our Competitor would have the silly simpletons “count the cost.” Well, The Corporation would as well. The difference is Our Executive would have them count the cost of being a loser. Any notion that cooperation might be better than cutthroat competition must be kept out of their wretched heads. After all, the myth of “my money” states that the only reason any of the ambitious apes would do anything at all is to make more money than others. Indeed, under this paradigm why would any of them do a thing for free, unless it leads to making a lot of money in the end? Why would they do a thing for two million dollars if they could get four million. And why would they do it for four million if they could get forty million? And why would anyone pay his employees a fair wage if they could keep more for themselves and increase their own net worth and their personal prestige along with it?
Why is the myth important to us? I can think of three ways “my money” helps The Corporation. First, the myth teaches our clients from birth to “climb the ladder,” to “be a success,” to equate money with value, to assume some trouser-wearing chimps are to be honored just because they have a lot of wealth. Many of our clients will then ingratiate themselves to those who have money, becoming sycophants, believing their fates are tied to the prosperity of those they serve. All sorts of influence can be purchased with money or the mere promise of money. All sorts of business models cater to the rich and in fact depend on the rich for sustenance. A rich client doesn’t necessarily have to be worthy of respect or even be competent to be admired, or ideally adored, by the many who want to work for him or sell things to him. As we know here below, only a small part of the population can ever achieve the wealth needed to sustain boutique businesses, much less meet the expectations of so many toadies. So, most of the population is ensnared into doing what the rich want or they will get no money at all! And to top it all off, all their supplication to the rich can easily be turned into resentment and frustration, if not hostility. Constantly kowtowing to the rich has a way of convincing many of our clients to turn their contracts over to us without even knowing it. Believing in the myth of “my money” can thus become their undoing ~ literally.
Second, our clients can easily be duped into believing they too have a chance to become extremely wealthy. So, believing the myth, they conclude ~ wrongly, of course ~ they too might be “worth something” someday. I know, it should be rather obvious the myth itself pretty much assures only a relative few of the slimy creatures will ever achieve fantastic wealth. The not-so-amazing upshot is many will seek wealth above all else, never mind the fact that Our Competitor is more interested in how they treat each other than how much they possess. Of course, if a client sincerely believes he will strike it rich in due time, and finally be able to live “the good life,” he will continue to believe the myth of “my money” and will continue to honor wealth as the symbol of superior status.
Third, “my money” can easily be fashioned into a pair of “golden handcuffs.” Suppose a wannabe who strives for more money somehow gets it, but the pecuniary primate really hates his job or his boss. Delightful! Your client is now trapped in a job he hates simply because he now makes so much money he can’t afford to quit! Further, he is still in thralldom to a wealthier master who signs his paycheck. It takes an exceptional client to resist the temptation to become a prisoner of money. Many of the little beggars can’t turn down an opportunity to prostitute themselves when offered enough money ~ even to save their own contracts!
As a bonus, with a little nudge from one of us, “my money” fulfills the Second Commandment, turning our clients away from Our Competitor and towards Our Executive. As you must know, Our Executive has mandated we keep out of their pointy heads any suggestion like this one: If the only damned reason they are doing a thing is to obtain a lot of money, maybe they would be better off doing something else! Of course, more money on the balance sheet, faster automobiles, fancier clothes, larger houses, and more household gadgets are to be desired. And, like the dragons of old ~ how I miss them! ~ some of our clients can be persuaded to hoard riches even as a great many others of their kind must do without necessities, like food, clothing, and shelter. Be sure to keep your clients oblivious to “What’s His Name’s” injunction, “Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth,” and many will be inspired to amass vast collections of dolls, shoes, recordings, wine, pets, art, cars, yachts, mansions ~ even politicians ~ everything money can buy! It doesn’t matter what on Earth they collect as long as the collection separates them from each other and ultimately from Our Competitor. It’s all part of the myth. He who dies with the most toys, wins. And all that money and all those toys can make our clients more likely to sign their contracts over to us without even knowing it.
It is also worth noting that if we can keep most of the losers bickering and complaining about not having money, power, or fame, while many of the winners continue to declare “all you losers have to do is pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps,” an amusing and fruitful form of class warfare will ensue. The losers will of course focus on the fact of inequality and not the myth that promoted a winner-take-all philosophy in the first place, while the winners will fail to realize the myth has virtually assured the losers will have neither bootstraps nor in many cases boots! This kind of conflict has already sent multitudes of contracts in our direction.
The myth that somehow those who have “made” the most money also possess the most merit is exactly the narrow point-of-view we want to encourage. Don’t let it enter what passes for your clients’ thought processes that Our Competitor is the ultimate “creator” of wealth. Of course, pedantically speaking, He is the maker of all that is and all that ever will be. None of us, and certainly none of the Earthly worms, can make anything. They can only use what has been made and try to exploit it for profit. And the hairless money-hounds can only “create” wealth by tapping into the talents Our Competitor gave them. Further, the “creation of wealth” on that cursed planet, if it could be said to occur at all, is the result of many toiling trolls working across time and space to make it possible. No one individual, not even Our Executive, can generate wealth all by himself. But, keep these thoughts well-hidden. We want our clients to believe the myth. Why on Earth or in Hell would we want them to share the wealth they have merely inherited from Our Competitor? Sharing is for losers! Working together is for chumps. As long as our clients think “their” money makes them better than others, they are well on the way to making their contracts better suited to The Corporation!
Your Devoted Cousin,
Bloodstone
MurrayWorks 