Cartoon: New York Stock Exchange

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8289]

Whenever I look at the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, I see a confusing mess. Lately I’ve been watching videos about stock exchanges, and I found this cartoon. The cartoon dad is a poor soul who’s working himself to death for his fat, apathetic wife. Perhaps the animators were trying to warn us about a bad marriage. An unmarried man could certainly save and invest his money without it being “taxed” by a wife and kids.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[hmskl’dParticipant 6422]

The title of the book she is reading “Her Fatal Sin”, the tv by her side, curlers in her hair, piled dishes in the dish washer and she’s gobbling down a chocolate bon-bon every two seconds. I also see a table setting at the breakfast bar but no meal preparations in sight, anywhere. I have to assume he also does all the cooking. The husband scrubbing the floor with a GI brush, soap and bucket .. says it all. The expression of sadness on his face .. so he begins to dream .. of bowling .. a thought that frees him for just one moment from his life .. and frees him from her. Totally excellent video.

I can understand why he dreams of bowling. A place to escape and a totally different world than his life at home.

I always like to walk into bowling alleys. It’s partly the aroma of the wood wax used on the lanes. It’s also the sound of crashing pins and the pin setter machines. It;s also partly the display that every alley has of new bowling b~~~~ for sale. I always remember as a kid when we went bowling many years ago .. the exquisitely
beautiful designs and cool colors of the brand new bowling b~~~~ behind the glass cases .. all for sale at high prices for a kid like me. Good memories. Very good. I just like bowling alleys.

I also like the fact that they issued actual stock certificates in video. It would have been fun to buy shares and hold actual paper. Buy and hold.

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