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“Tell Michael it was business, not personal”, said Abe Vigoda near the end of “The Godfather”, and then Tessio gets the business end of betraying the Corleones. Business or Personal: the distinction matters.
In this duo, Business is geared toward benefit, profit, progress, expansion, and other rewards of calculated, logical action. Personal means being a vengeful cunt,* a horny sap, a gaslit spouse, a spurned lover, a cathartic negotiator, a slighted client, a spiteful customer, divorcing, etc. etc. The prevalence of feeling determines taking it personal, as long as the feeling is not greed.
* I meant a male vengeful cunt (e.g., a Supersonics 4EVA incel), so Thank U for all the judgmentalin’. As penance, may Jacobin double its subscription price.
If this is not obvious, it bears repeating: voracity for money is an emotion, not a rational imperative. Everyone needs money for food, narcotics, a WiFi device, and then shelter—but no one needs fries with truffle shavings, Rolexes, a quarter-assed Van Gogh, or a villa with a boat in [Low Cost-of-Living haven]. All of them are great, duh, but not indispensable.
Anyway, that’s the glitch I’ve found in the Business – Personal dyad. Taking it personal is being emotional, always, while business at its best is cool and bloodless. But greed is both business and emotional. And it’s OK to counter greed with walking out of negotiations because screw your rapaciousness. It’s fucking personal alright: you want to take advantage of me and I won’t let ya. Dignity may not be better than business always, but “Go screw over someone else” is a fine code for living for anyone who values self-respect. My only regret is this assessment is the product of being jerked around in real estate negotiations for the last two months, rather than me being blinded by an epiphany after mulling over capitalism over snifters of cognac and Yoo Hoo.
NFL NEWS
-Browns QB D. Watson became a defendant in a 24th lawsuit filed today. The plaintiff alleges that Watson scheduled a second massage at her Apt. Allegedly, after some unsuccessful cajoling to touch his dick, Watson got up and did some other stuff that I would be compelled to pepper with “allegedly”s and goddammit I’m off the clock getting paid by no one. Rest assured the New York Post accused Watson’s lawyer of playing the “Happy Ending” card. As they say on the Webz, #CaseClosed.
-JUST IN: RAMMMITTTT! makes Aaron Donald the highest paid non-QB.
I cannot begin to tell you the utter thrill of:
(1) Top performer getting paid; and,
(2) fretting that I could’ve summarized it more efficiently, given the audience. This place is a blessing.
-Wlmart buys the Donks! [WILL BE UPDATED; gimme an hour]
UPDATE: too impaired to elaborate a theme, xdilhaIHICharmslinG
SPROTS TONITE
All times Central.
STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFSE
WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS
Avs @ Eulers – 7:00 PM
Colorado looks to sweep.
GRANDES LIGAS
Patrulleros (Gray) @ Guardianes (Quantrill) – 6:10 PM
Marineros (Ray) @ CLANG CLANG CLANG (Javier) – 7:10 PM
Azulejos (Stripling) @ Reales (Lynch) – 7:10 PM
Medias Rojas (Wacha) @ Angelinos (Syndegarard) – 8:38 PM
Mets (Carrasco) @ Padres (Snell) – 8:40 PM
TOP FLIGHT FÚTBOL
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Argentina
Argentinos Juniors host Aldosivi – 7:30 PM
Brasil Serie A
Botafogo hosts Goiás – 6:00 PM
MINNOW SPOTLIGHT:
CONCACAF NATIONS LEAGUE
Aruba hosts St. Maarten – 6:00 PM
Trinidad y Tobago hosts Bahamas – 7:00 PM
Honduras hosts Curaçao – 7:00 PM
FINALLY,
gotta conclude: wanting money is not bad. Nor spending your money whatever way you wanna, nor wanting to make as much of it as possible–just don’t screw folks over. Spreading the wealth shouldn’t be a repugnant proposition. This isn’t even idealist shit!
All commercial transactions are for benefit and it’s common for one party to come out better than the other. All parties should be fine in a deal at the time it’s made. But the benchmarks for whom comes out ahead of a deal are very, very different: market value when it’s executed and hindsight. (The NFL Draft is the best example of the yooge disconnection between both.) And, really: retrospective analysis really is the end-all-be-all of everything human, isn’t it?
**DIGRESSION: Today is the 48th anniversary of D-Day. I bring it up because it’s today and I really really wish Beerguyrob was around to talk about it. Also (also!), I venture that D-Day is an example of a decision that panned out because it was both impulsive at the time, but time proved that it was correct—and, therefore, rational. Youse a lot of history freaks and learned folks, so feel free to tear me a new one for shoehorning this day into a post theme.**
But as to commercial transactions, je je: bite me.
Outside work stuff, I’m super cool with making a deal where everyone benefits, rather than me making a killin’. From experience, if you screw a greedy person, or someone with a litigioUs bent / “dignity”, it will come back. Greed and envy fuel too much industry. That is the only way I can explain the volume of pawn shop reality shows and other lowball porn. For me, that’s the worst part of this timeline.
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