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Teaching poetry is inefficient.
It contributes nothing
to quarterly profits or GDP
(unless that skill of phrase
phrases a memorable meme).
Better to spend the time
training the young toward
productive use of applied mathematics
which, incentivized just enough,
balloons into the great pure profit
of marketed probabilities
protected by Prospectus
and the usual disclaimers.
It's not the money. The money's
just a way of keeping score.
After a point, it's just the power and the glory
of bringing, from thinnest air,
voluptuous growth rates into being.
It contributes nothing
to quarterly profits or GDP
(unless that skill of phrase
phrases a memorable meme).
Better to spend the time
training the young toward
productive use of applied mathematics
which, incentivized just enough,
balloons into the great pure profit
of marketed probabilities
protected by Prospectus
and the usual disclaimers.
It's not the money. The money's
just a way of keeping score.
After a point, it's just the power and the glory
of bringing, from thinnest air,
voluptuous growth rates into being.
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Beyond greed where rococo capitalism toys with pornographies of business.
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Ain't it the truth. Nicely done!
What Roz said. Yes, well made.
"After a point, it's just the power and the glory
of bringing, from thinnest air,
voluptuous growth rates into being."
You're talking about poetry, right? I was taught poetry's all about growth.
:)
Teaching poetry is inefficient. Writing it is more so. Total waste of GDP. *
Well done!
I like this very much!
Yessiree. Poetry is not highly regarded by the 1%. (Nor the 99% for that matter. Oh, well.)
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Are you familiar with the efficient frontier? It's where we strive to be, poetry or money.*
"After a point, it's just the power and the glory
of bringing, from thinnest air,
voluptuous growth rates into being."
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Thanks to all for the generosity of commentary. It is a real luxury.
Yes!!!*
Thank you, J Crystal.
"balloons into the great pure profit
of marketed probabilities
protected by Prospectus"
If only poetry could do that!
Nice write!
Thanks for easing the pain. A nice bourgeois Frenchman once told me: "Oh, les artistes -- ils font la vie un peu moins penible pour nous les autres." That was in Avignon, in 1971. Things have not changed. Art, poetry, music, whatever ya call the stuff, never does. Thanks for reminding us. This'll make fave #10; well deserved!
Thank you, Willie.
"The money's just a way of keeping score." Great piece, Gary. *
thanks, Foster.
Money is one of our most dangerous illusions, because we all have to toe its power lines. *
Just graduated a kid from college. BA. I think he actually got an education. Thank god it has little to do with a job.