Today, I'm going to touch just a little on real money laundering, and an aspect of professional risk-taking that is rarely discussed. In the days when a few oddballs went to actual book libraries, you could still indulge the phrase 'the secret of,' or 'a secret to,' but now, when everyone and everything is on the net in very easy access, anything that was a secret five minutes ago is quickly in the hands of the great unwashed, as well as fourteen year olds with fake ID's and the murky tide of 'realists' and 'sceptics' who have never contributed a single solitary idea of their own in the whole of their miserable lives!
In short, most people already think they either know everything, or can know anything and everything simply by consulting the World Wide Web. And what's most amazing, is that in spite of such conceit, you might suppose not too many would be sucked into online gambling – but no, it's incredibly successful.
And that's where the difficulties lie. Governments tacitly accept certain types of money laundering, where such a thing permits inflows of money from external (non-domestic) sources, and where the continued flow of some of it within the domestic economy attracts normal tax netting through the money multiplier consequences of ordinary domestic money circulation. Thus, when an online poker business starts up, and within a short time claims to be handling tens of millions of dollars and huge numbers of participants, the government would usually just fiddle around and castigate the owners with a soggy newspaper. But then, as soon as the government banking and currency statisticians observe that, hey!, a lot of real people are spending a real hundred bucks each to get involved, suddenly the wild claims about large numbers take on a different complexion. Because they ARE wild claims... ...to begin with. The claims are merely meant to support a money laundering scheme involving very big people behind the froth.
And then suddenly, the little people actually come in and mess everything up. The temptation to take their money and send it into the obscure tunnels of the global financial washing machine, means that suddenly, hundreds of millions of normal circulation of real domestic dollars – leaves the economy. And that, the authorities will never stand for. Thus, real players getting involved in online gambling spells the 'legal' end to the whole thing.
How could they be so silly? I mean, how can the ordinary public be so naiive? Neither you nor I will ever be able to convince them that there is no way to win money playing online poker anywhere at all – because they simply want to believe that you can. They want to have hope in 'something for nothing' and the serendipity of everything 'web,' and things being as easy as online poker seems. Something too about the ability to hide behind a computer screen answers to the fearfulness in people, and yet their cupidity which also exists at the same time.
Okay, let me modify what I said a little. The game that is being played online, is not poker. Poker is about yourself, and other people, not screenshots.
Which leads me to the 'secret' that is no real secret: the public everywhere is incapable or has become incapable generally, of independent thought.
And that is why too, that we are 'in' a so-called world financial or banking 'crisis.' The public has been told to believe, that nations that default on their debt to banks, will cause terrible consequences for everyone. Not true in any sense at all. But it is believed, and the media presses the story each and every day.
Rather than occupy Wall Street, people need to re-occupy their own heads with their own thoughts. A billion people all thinking independently will not all fail at once – but without doubt the entire population relying on the media's ideas and its pre-occupation with the art of failure will assuredly indeed all fail as a single group altogether.
Modern democracy means the Left arguing with the Right about the same idea pushed from elsewhere. It doesn't mean the Left having different ideas to the Right. At the moment, it's all about the same idea - the only idea there is, is that 'there is a financial and/or banking crisis' and there are apparently two sides from which to view that idea.
If you are a smart person you'd better make sure you have some individual and personal ideas beyond this 'fear the crisis' business. Professional risk-taking is about quality thinking. Quality risk-taking is about independent thought. It involves uniquely perceiving the rewards ahead of some determined, planned action. Uniquely. I used that word deliberately. Rarely can you rely on other people's quick signing-up to a really clever idea, but then, really decent-sized rewards are not generally found to go along with common ideas in the hands of a large number of people.
The only think that's risky about quality risk-taking is that it is almost guaranteed to have you ostracised by the crowd. Which is a good thing right now because when the crowd all sink and drown together – which they are about to and will do – you will not be with them.
It's quite clear that neither the media, politicians, nor the public possesses the one true and necessary component and indicator of a potential for quality thinking – imagination.
You can imagine that, for example, online poker will make you money, successfully. But you must extend that imagining into the region of uniqueness for such ideas to start to possess quality. Stylishness risks you little and colours your thinking. Be stylish. It does help.
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