TIYAK ang tabo ng limpak-limpak kung may hawak kang lotto outlet. Basta nasa magandang lugar na daan-daanan ng sanrekwang tao sa araw-araw, gabi-gabi tiyak na marami ang magaganyak na ilaro sa kapalaran ang P10 o kahit P100 pa—baka sakaling ang sampung piso ay magwagi ng barko.
Kuntento na ang tulad ng sumulat nito na mismong online computer ang pumili ng sampares ng anim na numero—lagi naman talagang panalo ang pigurang 36-24-36, doon ako madalas tumama at tamaan—kapag sinusumpong ng utog, oops, pag-alulong sa buwan. A pair of six lucky numbers for a grab at a piece of the moon—lucky lucky pick pick.
Hindi malaswa, masarap pa ngang pakinggan kapag ihihirit ang pinagnanasaang tatayaan sa suking seksing lotto outlet attendant: “Miss, lucky lucky pick pick!”
Hornier-than-thou was the demeanor I took when I found out my third kid was the top honcho of the ending game in our subdivision, why, he sopped me with P500 a day—allowance ko raw.
He had four or five “runners”. They took bets off households in every block in a mopping up operations of sorts. A percentage off those bets goes to the runner, so the more bets a runner collects, the bigger his cut off the total bets that, in turn, goes to my kid—he was barely in his sophomore year in high school and had just turned 13.
Look, intoned I at him, but there isn’t a whit of wealth generated in this money-making operation of yours. Say, 10 blokes chip P10 each for a pot of P100. The winner gets P60, you get the rest of the money as pecuniary intermediation fee, eh? It’s a repetitive process that doesn’t create value—you’re just raking the money in and redistributing it. There’s no exchange of values, say, P5 worth of nutrition and eased hunger from banana cue is traded for a P5 bill—and both parties win in that transaction.
In your operation: out of 10 blokes chipping in their share of the pot, only one wins while nine turn up as sorry losers. Oops, include yourself as constant winner since you provide the potholder for those bozos.
Business isn’t about making one a winner at the expense of nine wannabe-winners-turned-losers. It’s about generating value in every deal that turns every participant into a winner. Business isn’t a win-loss proposition; it’s always a win-win affair that metes out value, whether pecuniary or intrinsic. Hindi ka basta gagawa lang ng pera, gagawa ka ng halaga at pagpapahalaga.
Well, the kid’s foray as gaming godfather, he had to say goodbye to that after our earnest talk on my distorted or perverted sense of values.
A similar modus operandi goes on in lottery—bozos cough up the so-called gullibility tax for a chance at raking millions of pesos. The operation is quite efficient at soaking up excess liquidity and fostering stupidity.
‘Nuff said on values at kung kursunada mong tumabo ng gullibility tax sa mga multi-milyong nagnanasang sumunggab ng milyones sa mailap na kamay ng kapalaran, makipag-alam sa Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (kaharap ng gusali ng NFA sa may E. Rodriguez Ave. sa Galas, Quezon City—marami do’ng namimitik ng hub cap at side mirror ng sasakyan kaya ingat lang po).
Kuntento na ang tulad ng sumulat nito na mismong online computer ang pumili ng sampares ng anim na numero—lagi naman talagang panalo ang pigurang 36-24-36, doon ako madalas tumama at tamaan—kapag sinusumpong ng utog, oops, pag-alulong sa buwan. A pair of six lucky numbers for a grab at a piece of the moon—lucky lucky pick pick.
Hindi malaswa, masarap pa ngang pakinggan kapag ihihirit ang pinagnanasaang tatayaan sa suking seksing lotto outlet attendant: “Miss, lucky lucky pick pick!”
Hornier-than-thou was the demeanor I took when I found out my third kid was the top honcho of the ending game in our subdivision, why, he sopped me with P500 a day—allowance ko raw.
He had four or five “runners”. They took bets off households in every block in a mopping up operations of sorts. A percentage off those bets goes to the runner, so the more bets a runner collects, the bigger his cut off the total bets that, in turn, goes to my kid—he was barely in his sophomore year in high school and had just turned 13.
Look, intoned I at him, but there isn’t a whit of wealth generated in this money-making operation of yours. Say, 10 blokes chip P10 each for a pot of P100. The winner gets P60, you get the rest of the money as pecuniary intermediation fee, eh? It’s a repetitive process that doesn’t create value—you’re just raking the money in and redistributing it. There’s no exchange of values, say, P5 worth of nutrition and eased hunger from banana cue is traded for a P5 bill—and both parties win in that transaction.
In your operation: out of 10 blokes chipping in their share of the pot, only one wins while nine turn up as sorry losers. Oops, include yourself as constant winner since you provide the potholder for those bozos.
Business isn’t about making one a winner at the expense of nine wannabe-winners-turned-losers. It’s about generating value in every deal that turns every participant into a winner. Business isn’t a win-loss proposition; it’s always a win-win affair that metes out value, whether pecuniary or intrinsic. Hindi ka basta gagawa lang ng pera, gagawa ka ng halaga at pagpapahalaga.
Well, the kid’s foray as gaming godfather, he had to say goodbye to that after our earnest talk on my distorted or perverted sense of values.
A similar modus operandi goes on in lottery—bozos cough up the so-called gullibility tax for a chance at raking millions of pesos. The operation is quite efficient at soaking up excess liquidity and fostering stupidity.
‘Nuff said on values at kung kursunada mong tumabo ng gullibility tax sa mga multi-milyong nagnanasang sumunggab ng milyones sa mailap na kamay ng kapalaran, makipag-alam sa Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (kaharap ng gusali ng NFA sa may E. Rodriguez Ave. sa Galas, Quezon City—marami do’ng namimitik ng hub cap at side mirror ng sasakyan kaya ingat lang po).
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