These women in hedge funds want to know where I am in my philanthropic journey? LOL! I tried going from success to significance, Honey, but thank God I booked a round trip ticket. Give me unlimited financial success and I will hire some schmuck like Phil Cubeta to tell the world how much good I am doing. Jed Emerson has a lot to offer too, but he is a bit too ethical for my taste. My Balanced Score Card, Honey, Phil gives me straight A's. Good luck with the conference, I can't attend as I am doing the keynote at a seceret Bilderberg Conference. How to dominate the world and enslave them all is my topic. I don't have the time to jerk myself around with all this hocus pocus double bottom line crap. Some people get off on it, but, get a life!, or a boyfriend. Believe me, Ladies, the thrill of doing good wears off fast. Stick to what you are good at. Get the money and tell them all to kiss your boots. Alpha and Altruism, Jesus, who do you pay to write that shit? What do they call that, alliteration? Did they charge you extra? You would think Stanford Business School grads would be above that artsy fartsy poetic crap.
Kisses,
Yeah, my cousin works at a hedge fund.
She and my brother (who also makes a lot of money) just invited all of us down to a big party, thousands of miles away, despite the fact that everyone is poor. They don't seem to have any idea of what poor people go through in this country. And that extends to their own family. It makes me sad how rich people are divided by their lack of empathy.
She just invited everyone to her lavish wedding at this fancy place. And I'm not going.
Posted by: Disgruntled | February 11, 2012 at 10:47 PM
The poor envy the rich, as Mitt Romney noted. Why not get rich yourself? It is a Free country.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | February 12, 2012 at 09:36 PM
Yes, they keep reminding me I should have just become a dentist and then my life would be so easy.
Except I got a D in Bio and F in Chem. Can't really make a doctor out of me. And in these professions, a woman can only go so far, as http://expeditingtheinevitable.com and Dr Brodsky shows us. @LindaBrodskyMD in case you'd like to see more.
It certainly is Free if you are a Koch brother or a 1%. Freedom for the rich.
Oh, saw this on the Daily Show: The haves and the have-nots? How about the haves and the have-soons? That's really what the conservative millionaires say as they run for office.
Indeed, we shall all soon have much less than we have now.
Forced austerity for all and even more wealth for the 1%.
Posted by: Disgruntled | February 12, 2012 at 10:54 PM
Austerity is needed to pay for the tax breaks on capital gains and to preserve the favorable tax treatment of income earned by hedge fund managers. Keep your attitude positive and you will do well, if not, blame only yourself.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | February 13, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Had you gotten better grades and kept on the success track you would be riding high and your relatives would be grousing. On a positive note, charity starts at home. Your relatives might let you sleep in their garage.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | February 13, 2012 at 11:10 AM
By the way, if you can get me a face to face interview with your rich relatives, so I can pitch my morals consulting business, there is $5 in it for you, as a professional courtesy, and $10 more if they engage me for a morals makeover.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | February 13, 2012 at 11:13 AM
I plan on getting rich later today by selling all my mistaken notions on eBay. A colleague suggested I sell them in lots.
Posted by: Curator | February 13, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Curator, if you agree not to blog again about social justice, I know a funder who will pay you $100,00 a year.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | February 13, 2012 at 02:23 PM
Hey count me in! A hundred bucks buys a lot of rice! Delicious, filling rice.
Posted by: Steve | February 15, 2012 at 06:11 PM