There isn’t much that a pound of flesh or a piece of chocolate can’t fix once an offender or a trouble has been noticed or identified. The unfortunate thing might be that pounds and pieces have their own comeuppance that tracks the secondary offending culprit who has taken it or eaten — at least or especially if their acceptably allotted measure of a pound or a piece has been exceeded.
Banks take too much, that’s for sure and seem never to have to answer — it’s hardly fair but they seem to be the ones making or shifting lines in the sand and setting all the rules for what constitutes the Games People Play:
“The interest will be 19% on that cream-colored new Toyota truck you think you want as a treat to yourself for your upcoming birthday to make up for the neglect your boyfriend is paying — unless, of course, you want to buy the extra warranty and then it can drop to 16% so I can charge you a simple, one-time fee for you to have it and at the same time give a SPIFF to me for including it.”
He wasn’t quite that honest.
“I won’t pay another dime”, she’d said so he adjusted the margins to fit the bonus he’d receive for selling her the add-on.
Interest rates. Imagine that they are that simple to manipulate. Imagine that she hadn’t refused to pay another dime, she’d have had to pay three points more over the long haul — the truck would have just about doubled by the time she’d finished paying for it — four years down the road.
Live and learn. Life is hard. It’s often quite unfair and favors all the ones who have no conscience.
How do people have the conscience to charge three points more when they could just as easily let it slip down to three points less — what kind of people are they? The same kind that shoot wild animals?
Gamers. Thieves. Salesmen. Politicians and corporations. Profit making aparati.
There ought to be some laws.
The truth is, or so it seems, that it is best just not to be a part. There is no way to gamble for security that can’t be broken somehow.
What’s a body to do?
Tic Tac Toe
Better grab the chocolate, grow a garden and save some silver.
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