Saturday, July 5, 2008

The Charity

Making the most of misery


Every city should have one. You make donations, and the charity buys the goods it needs off you. Well, you weren’t about to give the money away for no return, were you?


Charities are a relatively little explored part of society, and yet they are so important. I mean, who is paying for the free or cheap hospitalization of the poor? If you get involved or, better still, set one up, then you get on the board, get to meet important people - and the seat on one board is merely a stepping stone to the next, to mix metaphors.


A hospital charity needs someone to build the hospital (your building company supplied by your building supplies supplier), bandages and medicines (supplied by your medical company) and staffed by trained people from various educational institutions (on whose board you sit, or will soon sit). Good, isn’t it! Before you know it, you will be mayor of your city and making more money than you need to count.

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