This is what Vegas is all about; this is the lesson I’m trying to integrate into my own life.

Give somebody a fair deal, and they’ll blame you when they fuck it up. Give somebody a crooked deal, but tell them they’re a winner even when they lose, and they’ll love you to the ends of the Earth. This is why you win back 30% of your money on slot machines, while you slowly go broke. This is why wimminz will reject a guy who’ll treat them well (as long as they treat HIM well) in favour of the man who’ll treat them like shit, but buy them diamonds every so often. This is why people sit around laughing at Reality TV, when they themselves are fat, stupid idiots.

This is the fine line; on the one side you have Nice Guy (TM) failure, you have the ‘honest’ business that nobody buys from – on the other side, you have the sleezeball who eventually gets picked up for a Drunk Rape Accusation, you have the pornography business, you have Transformers 3. In between the two, you have success; you have to walk that fine line where you sell shit to the shit eaters without becoming one yourself (salesmen are always the easiest sells), where you maintain some sort of level of integrity and self respect.

The best solution is to restructure the banks and monetary system now, face great pain now by deleveraging and let asset values collapse in order to reflect their true values based on what everyone can afford. After that, the economies would function normally again after a time and the velocity of money would go back to historical levels. But to do that, governments have to shrink tremendously, and with it their power and ability to monitor and imprison anyone on whim. The millions reliant on government handouts and make-work jobs will be forced to work real jobs or rely on a provider for their living. There is no way a politician can support what must occur, and eventually will occur, and get elected. Which only means that when the train comes, the wreck will be that much worse. But it can’t be any other way in our current environment.