Playing With Money (part 1)

I watch people play with money all the time. I see them down by the ferry terminal on St.Kitts in broad daylight playing with money in the open air surrounded by spectators. A few years ago that would never have happened. The money players would have had to hide to "play" with their or other people's money, but now nearly every street corner is an open casino, and nobody is doing anything about it, and I don't really know if anybody should.
 Money is scarce, as scarce as it has ever been, and yet it is not scarce.
 Paradoxical?
 Money does not dry up like water on a steamy day once it has been manufactured. It is out there somewhere floating around. Much of it is in the hands of the people who understand how to get it, and much of it is in the hands of many who don't know how they got it. Gamblers like those at the ferry terminal understand it the least of all people. They have no clue how it's made, where it came from, how they got it, how the people they "win" it from got, it and if they are going to have any of it the following moment, never mind the following day.
 There is money out there.
Lots of it.
Tons and tons of it.
But it's those who don't seek it who won't find it. It is those who blow it who won't have much or any of it, and frankly those who think they have enough of it never do have enough of it because money is a funny thing. It attracts loafers. If you are suspected of having lots of it, people expect you to give them some of what you have, because they suspect you got it from them somehow or the other. So if you have a lot of it and you don't seem to be able to show that you are giving any of it away, you attract haters and enemies who may try to knock you down and take it from you. The love of money is the root of evil, not so much because the man or woman who "loves" it practices evil, but because  it is often at the root cause of why evil people try to kill for it if, to them, you appear to understand how to use it to acquire a nice car, or build a nice home, or even two homes with gardens that you  seem able to pay someone to maintain.
 There is nothing wrong with having lots of money, but there is something about having money that attracts evil people to those who seem to know how to earn or acquire it. There is money out there and the least among us can certainly have more of it. Note, I did not say get rich with it. I said we can have more of it.




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