There is an interesting thing that I have noticed, in my time in the music industry. The ones who were once young, broke, struggling to make it, screaming "never forget where you come from".......
Forget where they came from.
They don't remember that feeling of being broke...like trying to make it happen, stretching it all out. Sleeping at the Port Authority, scrapin together for a meal....all in the name of getting that one break...just that one chance is all they need. They forgot.
"If all of your problems can be solved with money, you don't really have a problem"
- Carlo Gambino
Easy as pie to say, when you're a powerful multi-millionaire mob boss.
You see, when you speak to and deal with people who have tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, they really stop looking at the price tags. They buy what they want. That's nice. I hope to be there one day, myself. But when someone who is NOT at your station or level says "I'm broke", that doesn't mean "I had to break into my last $10,000"...no, it means "I don't have two simple nickels to rub together, B". Now, that isn't to say that you should necessarily bail them out or HELP them out...some people don't actually want "help" they just want the money. Some people need help and are too proud to ask. It's the hardest thing for a man to go to another man and ask that man to help. It's bad enough just KNOWING that you don't have a way to make ends meet...without lowering what's left of your pride to ask for assistance.
On the other hand, there ARE those cases where a helping hand is EXACTLY what they need to just get them back up and on their feet. Granted, you may loan a hand and get paid back in fingers. You might not get paid back at all! But the good karma will come back to you.
- "I have always believed it is in every way profitable to invest in your fellow man"
- Don Michael Corleone
Yes, I'm aware I quoted a fictional character....but it was a human that wrote that
Thank you, Mario Puzo
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