The Moneymakers

You may be sure that when people speak of “moneymakers,” they have in mind calculating people, aggressive individuals, financiers, brokers and bankers. Early formulas for success were often wrapped up in items that cost a dime, sold for a dollar, and proved to be habit forming; but today’s successes must “calculate” beyond such simple things.

If a man makes a better mousetrap, the tax collectors beat a path to his door. He’s harassed by work stoppages (because of the Wages and Hours Act); and by trade discount difficulties (due to the Fair Trade Practice Act). Shortages, stoppages, law suits and patent infringements, are rude awakeners responsible for the difference between being a success and being successful. “Successful” too often is determined by whether a man can salvage enough from his success to live on, and the formula is about the same as for a nervous breakdown.

People cite the old worn out adage that “it takes money to make money,” and that he who puts up the money receives the greatest return. A better one is about a dog with a bone always being in danger. But it doesn’t take any old adages to show us that today’s rich stay rich because they’re resourceful enough to employ every tax dodging gimmick in the book and so shift most of their burdens to smaller shoulders than their own.

It’s a game that’s gone on since history began; an old papyrus, picturing a moneymaker showing a stingy old cadaver. Today he’s the man at the top, basking in luxury. Envious elves mixed the paint in both pictures. Money may not buy happiness, but it surely helps pay for the kind of misery we’d like to enjoy!

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