1. Thou shall deny meritocracy with every fiber of your being, so that when the time comes to picking the fall guys from among your juniors, every poor sod seems equally deserving
2. Thou shall hate art, music and culture while loudly professing your passion for them. Because if you start really enjoying stuff that does not cost much what will you do with all the millions you are going to stash away? You can’t risk the fading of your amazing appetite for money, can you? At the same time remember the culture scene, the art market and show business are full of your kind and so you must pretend conviviality
3. Thou shall not stint on buying your children a business degree or two from abroad. Helps in creating front companies. And hopefully the nincompoops will learn a thing or two besides finding boring, wasteful ways of spending your ill-gotten wealth
4. Thou shall pretend to be pious. Besides being good for the image among the gullible, religious institutions and seers are, 9 out of 10 times, good and reliable partners for people like you. Moreover there is no evidence yet that God, if he exists, cannot be fooled
5. If you made the mistake of getting a good education thou shall strive to wash away its debilitating effects by dipping into every pool of inequity, crudeness and lasciviousness that you can find. This of course does not mean that you cannot preen at all the alumni gatherings that you can get to in your latest SUV. If you haven’t got an education, congratulations on your good sense. And remember that you can always get a honorary doctorate or two for a quid or a quid pro quo
6. Thou shall kiss-arse the rich and the powerful as often as you can and to compensate for the consequent hurt to your ego, kick-arse every one dependent on you, as often as you can
7. Thou shall banish love and passion (because they are the enemy of greed) from your life and make do with lust and emotional dependencies
8. Thou shall not worry about your inner ugliness showing because money can always buy cosmetic surgery, soft lighting, airbrushing, arm candy and fawning hanger-ons
9. Thou shall cultivate a high-order of stinginess when it comes to charity or spending on others because you know nobody, except perhaps your mother, really loves you, so why should you care?
10. You shall steal the tenth commandment because you are the quintessential 10% guy, aren't you?
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Would like to add to Comm 6. Thou shalt kiss arse in privacy AFTER the rich and famous person has come to you with due appointment. Appearances must be kept!
Brilliantly put.And the final moments of such C and C characters would be like that of central character in "Death Of Ivan Illych" in Leo Tolstoy story.
Like all of you, I am "guilty" of violating many of the commandments. As I near the end of my career, I am delighted to see meritorious juniors in our company grow. I love music. I sent my daugther for overseas education but I let her fend for herself after that. I got decent education and the associated rewards, but drive to alumni meetings in my 10 year old Ford. I do not appear pious but have a strong belief in god.Oh god, what a waste of life!
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