I now fully believe that you do indeed work for the finance industry.
You guys have been making lots of friends in recent years.
Does anyone still invite you to their houses ?
"Making the world a better place, one dollar at a time"
That was uncalled-for. Why does shit devolve into personal insults so quickly on these forums?
Take it as a personal insult if you must. It wasn't. It was a direct attack on this
deeply ingrained belief that way too many people hold that you can separate your
business dealings from you actually are.
The good old "nothing personal, it was just business, you understand" after you're
done fucking someone up the arse.
At one point in history, this is what made the catholic church so popular:
"I can sin all week, and be the perfect asshole, screw my customers all
day long ... it doesn't matter, I get to church on Sunday, where the great
laundromat in the sky takes it all away and makes me white as snow again"
The kind of logic DeathAndTaxes is spouting is exactly what landed the entire
world in the financial quagmire we're currently in: everything is fine as long
as I make a profit. Long term consequences ? Who cares, the world can burn
up in flames, as long as I'm making a buck.
Investing with a perfect asshole ? That completely fine. He can go rob a bank
and kill people, I don't care, I don't want to know, as long as my ROI looks good.
So, take it as an ad hominem attack if you want. My attack is on folks who claim
that being nice in business is bad idea and damn the consequences.
Being nice isn't the same as being stupid.
On the other hand, behaving like an arsehole has consequences other than
the immediate impact on ROI, e.g. how much people will be wanting to interact
with you on a forum knowing what you do for a leaving and where your ethics
are at.
As will people be offended and consider your racist and hateful misinterpretation of Catholic dogma to be ignorant. Adding something so grotesquely incorrect makes you look stupid, pick a better analogy.
And I'm glad there are business people who feel the way you do in the world. Really. It's nice to do business with someone who gives a damn. But it is also just as satisfying to do a deal with a complete arsehole, if both the arsehole and I come out of the deal feeling that we gained on the transaction. Emotion, compassion and anthropomorphizing transactions is nothing more than trying to build an artificial construct around a deal that makes you feel more protected.
It's a waste of effort.
I would absolutely encourage shakuru to buy up as much of his paper as possible at whatever discount he can wrangle. This has the immediate effect of allowing him to satisfy more of his debtors more rapidly. When one considers that there is approximately $20,000 in completely unsecured debt, backed by nothing more than a few comments made anonymously on a discussion forum? FFS, you should be damn glad to see anything on this.
And to back that up with a serious offer- I will buy as much of this debt as the market would care to sell at 1% on the original verified total, subject to a separate repayment schedule that shakuru and I would have to agree to. Four times what a lot of liquidations offer, and a full one bitcent on the bitcoin better than a complete rogering. Do you want the jingle of bitcoins in your pocket right now, right here, or do you want to have continued faith in the moral fiber and ethical make-up of shakuru?
Offer is on the table.
