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Sat. Sep 28, 2002
Song in My Head
Song in My Head – Lately, when I hear about the latest drop in the Dow, a song has been running thought my head. 10cc, ”The Wall Street Shuffle.” For no reason other than that, here’s the lyrics:
Do the Wall Street shuffle
Hear the money rustle
Watch the greenbacks tumble
Feel the Sterling crumble
You need a yen to make a mark
If you wanna make money
You need the luck to make a buck
If you wanna be a Getty, Rothschild
You’ve gotta be cool on Wall Street
You’ve gotta be cool on Wall Street
When your index is low
Dow Jones ain’t got time for the bums
They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets
They plead with you, buddy can you spare the dime
But you ain’t got the time
Doin’ the….
Doin’ the….
Oh, Howard Hughes
Did your money make you better?
Are you waiting for the hour
When you can screw me?
’Cos you’re big enough
To do the Wall Street Shuffle
Let your money hustle
Bet you’d sell your mother
You can buy another
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Francisco's Money Speech. An excerpt from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. "Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. … Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. … Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit." A Proper Approach to Business Ethics: Aristotle and Ayn Rand. By Andrew H. West, CFA, Capitalism Magazine, September 30, 2002. Aristotle would probably suggest that today’s corporate crooks were not egoistic, proud, and rational enough. They confused apparent goods for real goods. They confused money with happiness; they confused a brief spurt of fame with a successful professional career. This led them to abandon virtuous habits and actions, and take up vice. Aristotle lays the blame for this confusion on those involved however – as humans, they were responsible for distinguishing real from false values, and virtues from vices. They were responsible for valuing their own moral worth. Instead they abandoned virtue and sacrificed the possibility of a good life by pursuing a few years of fake success.