tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post2109394905472610964..comments2024-03-26T02:19:27.813-07:00Comments on ♆ The Macho Response ♆: Cheating (On Yourself)The Crack Emceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-16133257322891122482012-05-13T01:10:11.478-07:002012-05-13T01:10:11.478-07:00From the linked Amazon review:
"...people in ...From the linked Amazon review:<br />"...people in poor countries cheat a lot..."<br /><br />Or, perhaps, it's really, "...people who lie and cheat a lot produce poor countries..."<br /><br />Unless they have loads of oil (or some other raw resource) and outsiders willing to pay them to set up operations in their countries - but that's still not wealth -creation- on their part, just acquisition by geological happenstance. And it only lasts as long as the resource or its market.<br /><br />By example: Emerati men are known to keep apartments specifically for cheating, not to mention all the sexual abuse suffered by foreign maids tricked into entering the country for work before having their passports confiscated and being kept as slaves. Their great towering centerpiece, Dubai, was designed by Western and Japanese engineers, built by slaves imported from Asia - and has already begun to rot even as its crown-jewel (the Burj, designed by a firm from Chicago) struggles towards completion... sans tenants.Squiresnoreply@blogger.com