Not so easy riches
I’m not an entrepreneur. Give me a steady job with a fair salary (and a pension plan) any day, over the quick riches that so many believe are their due. Not to malign the spirit of success, but if it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
Think about those risktakers, the ticket scalpers of the world. They buy their tickets for the show they’ll never see, and then they plan on how the world will beat a path to their (corner near the stadium) door. Even after the “pound of flesh” (that’s from Shakespeare; the Merchant of Venice from Grade Nine) that they leave in the hands of the online ticket agency (professional scalpers), there’s still the chance that there is a rube, willing to spend too much money for the show that will soon be a memory. Oh, and another brick in the eventual “wall” of tinnitus, but that’s a different story.
Out in Van-land (the left coast of Canada), they’re planning for some big athletic events in a few months. I can’t say which ones, because you have to have a license, but the logo has a lot of zeros… since the hotel industry can’t possibly handle all the spectators, people have been planning for YEARS to put their house/condo/RV up for rent during the crowded time. Scalpers by design, if you will. Seems that the rental market isn’t as “ripe for the picking” as people hoped, and the price point has already dropped by 40%. So sad. What if people actually had to live in their own houses while the TV broadcasts day after day of people doing stuff in the snow?
