Well the thing you need to understand is that we are all very rich and we are all very upset.
You see, we haven’t had much going on recently. It’s just been business as usual; emails answered within the hour, expenses filed for a double-cheese bagel somewhere across the Atlantic. We like the business, we do, but the fact is that it can get pretty boring. The same things, over and over. Often I think to myself: maybe I should have lived a more interesting life than this one. And then I think: ha! No, no. There are a lot of things I wouldn’t have, if I did that.
My desk, for instance. A really wonderful place to sit. In my office, in my home, and solid mahogany, too. I really enjoy sitting there and answering texts on WhatsApp, thumbing away with my colleagues - you see, these are the things I find truly interesting. You may find me quite childish and I would agree, but I operate one of the world’s leading sources of independent journalism - I don’t mean to be rude but the simple fact is that I do not need to value your opinion.
Anyway, I’m getting distracted. As I was saying, yes, we really haven’t had that much going on, if you can understand. Yes, of course, there is always the news - people dead here, some criminal doing something there. Yes, yes, very officially, we care about that. It’s what makes our money, after all, and what else would you suggest that I prioritise? Your sorry situation? Oh, no, I don’t think so. I shouldn’t think you have taken your wife out to a proper meal in some time (and I mean a proper one, with tablecloths). But I am distracted again, my goodness. As I was saying.
We have a lot of money. But we seem to keep making it and, the fact is, it isn’t much of a thrill. You might see me at my desk and think: wow, well, it certainly has its perks. It does, but it’s deathly boring. Money is like a glass of water - it serves its purpose and then loses its point. And it gets locked in all sorts of boring, boring cycles, with accounting, with taxes, with those expenses I was talking about.
So yes, it has been a while since we have had anything happening. Why are we complaining to you? Well, it certainly isn’t for the money, ha! You must forgive me (I really could not care less, though); it is because we are completely and thoroughly bored and we would like for something… vaguely… surprising to happen, if that could be arranged. You may not understand, on your salary, but you do not need to; the lawsuit contains all of the necessary details, written much more professionally than all of this. And good! Because there is only one thing that you need to understand! We are all very rich, and we are all very upset.
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A good start!
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