rampant business fraud

[moralist]

You don't know?

That's why I asked you if you thought it was funny.

[Brant Gaede]

You don't know?

That's why I asked you if you thought it was funny.

In the Onion way.

--Brant

striving for ever greater crypticness

cryptic (see?)

cryptic

space (see the space thread)

squirm

[PDS]

You don't know?

That's why I asked you if you thought it was funny.

In the Onion way.

--Brant

striving for ever greater crypticness

cryptic (see?)

cryptic

space (see the space thread)

squirm

Your reference to space leaves me feeling empty.

[moralist]

You don't know?

That's why I asked you if you thought it was funny.

In the Onion way.

The real irony is that in a few years that will be a hard news story devoid of humor. You can already see the tsunami of public opinion rising up against earning money.

In some European languages there is actually no distinction between earning money through work and winning money by chance as in a lottery. I've been reading an excellent book by Rabbi Daniel Lapin called "Buried Treasure". It's about design of moral wisdom that was built into the Hebrew language.

(excerpt...)

I would like to offer one small insight which grants us a spiritual strategy with practical application in our lives. English clearly distinguishes between winning a lot of money and earning a lot of money. Not all languages do the same.

Spanish

winning money = ganar dinero = earning money

French

winning money = gagner de l’argent = earning money

Greg

[syrakusos]

From my blog for January 30, 2011

The origin of "to make money" came up on David Veksler's "Objectivism Online" message board. So, I ran it through Babelfish. Even among Europeans, different cultures express differently the creation of profits and the making of money.

English: A business creates profits when it makes money.
German Ein Geschäft verursacht Profite, wenn es Geld verdient.
Dutch: Zaken leiden tot winsten wanneer het geld maakt.
Italian: Un commercio genera i profitti quando fa i soldi.
Spanish: Un negocio crea beneficios cuando hace el dinero.
Portuguese: Um negócio cria lucros quando faz o dinheiro.
French: Des affaires créent des bénéfices quand elles gagnent l'argent.

In French you win silver when you create blessings - Cyrano de Bergerac was Catholic, of course. Germans deserve the profits that are brought into ultimate objectivity - strict morality and academic metaphysics. While the Dutch do make money, being good Calvinists, they bear the burden of their winnings.

http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2011/01/to-make-money.html

[moralist]

... and just to add another addendum about how morality is embedded in language.

In Hebrew, there is no word for "entitlement" or "retirement".

Greg