Comrade B
8th February 2010, 21:57
Thought I would post a couple quotes from Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake I thought people here might enjoy
"'The Fiduciary is a mythological bird. It has never existed in Nature, never could, never will.'
Trout is the only person who ever said a fiduciary was any sort of bird. The noun (from the Latin fiducia,confidence, trust) in fact identifies a sort of Homo sapiens who will conserve the property, and nowadays especially paper or computer representations of wealth, belonging to other people, including the treasuries of their governments."
"Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful."
"'The Fiduciary is a mythological bird. It has never existed in Nature, never could, never will.'
Trout is the only person who ever said a fiduciary was any sort of bird. The noun (from the Latin fiducia,confidence, trust) in fact identifies a sort of Homo sapiens who will conserve the property, and nowadays especially paper or computer representations of wealth, belonging to other people, including the treasuries of their governments."
"Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful."