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Bribery And Corruption: Back Door Financial Dealings That End Up As The Meat On Your Plate
The corruption on which our biggest, most secretive meat industry was built. Yet until last night, many of us had never heard of the JBS company
Today I plan to talk about two billionaire brothers.
You know, when I was very young I dreamed of becoming a millionaire, which is probably considered as small change investment money in the back pockets of billionaire these days.
There are quite a few billionaires in the world it would seem, none of them living in close proximity to me.
But what does it take to become a billionaire?
No need to answer.
Jared A. Brock has done the calculations for you. He says:
‘It is impossible for an individual to legitimately earn a billion dollars.
‘If someone earned $100 per hour — more than enough for anyone to live in obscene luxury — in order to truly earn a billion dollars, they’d have to work 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for five thousand years.
‘So how is a billion dollars actually amassed?
