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When we have scads of it, money that is, we don't worry about keeping it or earning more of it because we already have scads of it. And when we don't have a farthing to our names, we naturally need and want more of if. But in today's world, and even days of yore, money has never grown on trees and more than likely never will, despite what some hip hop rappers might show you in bling, given how society seems to reward some artists by throwing tonnes of the green stuff at these idolized rappers for hurling insults in your face.

There are so many kinds of money, that I don't know where to being. But just to throw out nary a few: there is blood money, and bribe money. And then there is misbegotten money and money earned; there is stolen money and borrowed money. There is money inherited and money siphoned and money tweaked by cooking the books, as some accountants have been known to do for bosses. There is granny's money, usually the older-than-old-coins kind of money kept inside the type of snap purse that would break a fingernail or two if you tried to open it while a bit tipsy. There is forgotten money in coat pockets and found money on the streets. There is money wished upon, the way countless free-spenders do who hand over their twenty every week to buy lottery tickets. Lotteries, incidentally, first came into existence in Florence, Italy in 1530, considered the real precursor to the modern lottery and state lotto games. Governments were quick to cash in on the win-win by running state lotteries, enjoying the injection of easy money into their coffers.

The varieties of money and how it is accumulated are just as varied as the means by which we acquire it. I stare at the dollar values in my online bank statement and I can breathe a sigh of relief knowing I paid Mister Taxman at source who won't be tempted to dip into my slush fund and carve out yet another place. But it hasn't escaped my notice too that whenever I make a purchase they still get me with a Harmonized Sales Tax in Canada. I pay taxes at source. I pay taxes when I buy retail. The taxman knows more about money than you do.

But closer, ever closer am I nearing the stage in my life when my steady income will become reduced, perhaps three years down the road, maybe more, maybe less. Swimming in money, I am not, but neither am I scraping my cans of tuna together either. Some of those saved pennies have become saved dollars and I can afford to take months off at time, if and when I feel compelled to do so or have to, such as I've done in the past when in between jobs, when these periods lasted for three months or more. Apparently, and according to statistics, when you lose or leave a job, it's an acceptable length of time for you to take six months to land gainful employment. However, and again, this is according to statistics, if your job is taken away from you, there's a good chance that the next job you land might be paying you $10,000 less than what you earned in your previous role. [I'd like the economist who came up w/ this expense model to kindly provide a detailed explanation, thank you].

Money is power. Sometimes money bleeds and feels like it slips thru your fingers and you can't hold onto it long enough. Parents of teenagers tell me this all the time; their hard-earned dollars are relegated to their young adults, to ensure their university fund is ready to go, while others are forced to go massively into debt to pay for their teenager's university education. I recall having a conversation with an executive, while attending some sort of celebration. This executive worked in the forensic department of a large firm, and his particular expertise had to do with handling fraud cases, that is to say when executives commit acts of fraud from within the same corporation where they work. So I had to ask. Why would an Executives risk their career and reputation just to siphon off money from the company's books? Are they not already paid a fair amount of coin for the work they do? Surely, they are paid far more than the average middle-income earner. His answer, "They start off small, taking only bits of money, and when no one notices, they begin to take more and more." I'm sure he saw the expression on my face, and read it correctly. I was surprised by the explanation and not surprised by it. [The need to ensure there is enough money is incentive enough, I guess.] "One executive is going to jail now because over the course of five years, he siphoned off $300,000 from the company's books to pay for three teenagers to attend University." Wowzers! Kids are not cheap and young adults are even pricier.

And at other times, money turns blood into bandages and those gaping wounds I like to call monthly bills and necessary expenses, like mortgages, rent and car loans, are patched up as quick as a bunny when they receive their injection of cash each month, on the nose. You feel so good to have covered all your expenses that you feel inspired to crack open a bottle of wine and sing. Never have I had to lay my body on the line to pay for a living... not that I couldn't, if I had to, but I choose not to bcus that kind of blood money should be reserved as a last option. Yet, I've seen on documentaries how some young women who worked in the bootleg porn industry just for three months were able to pay their college education. Not everyone has access to easy money, nor are everyone's parents in a position to handle every expense. Not everyone is born w/ a silver spoon in their mouths, or as Christopher Walken says, "Some are born with a Full House and others are dealt jokers!"

Thankfully both men and women have options open to them. So long as the desire is alive and present to make money, there'll always be a vehicle to encourage some to exercise every conceivable option. I believe this is the reason why online stops like OnlyFans came into existence, to give the choice to make money by satisfying the kinks of others, w/o actually having to meet them face-to-face. I think it's far easier too to hand over money when gorging yourself online.