BMI31. The Powerful and their Business

Just an aside, have you ever spoken to someone really rich?  I have spoken to Queen Elizabeth.  I asked the obvious a very poor person would.  How could you use all the space in a castle?   I mean why don't let some servants use some of those bedrooms? those places have lots of bedrooms.  This is what she replied.
First of all I use all those bedrooms myself.  They all have different functions.  Second of all for me to be very rich I have to have an extraordinary amount of money and stuff.  Otherwise I wouldn't be really wealthy.

So as for powerful religious orders who work with the poor.  Let me state they do not give to the poor.  Okay? They work to get money from the poor.  The money goes to very few wealthy people.  Otherwise they would not be a rich order okay. Its a business.

Its a nice business as businesses goes.  Buts its a business and a cut throat one at that.  Just think of all those movies about clerics with political aspirations.  You have to have a lot of money to get a position in Rome  Really.

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