{"id":138,"date":"2007-07-12T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T23:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/?p=138"},"modified":"2025-04-12T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:37:11","slug":"greed-is-more-powerful-than-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/greed-is-more-powerful-than-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed is more Powerful than Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/trmp.jpg' alt='trmp.jpg'      style=\"display:none\"\/><br \/>\nWith Mexican tycoon <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlos_Slim\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Slim Helu&#8217;s<\/a> fortune recently surpassing that of Bill Gates, the world&#8217;s elite are taking notice. His 8 billion dollar surplus over Mr. Gates is being attributed to diversification, as Slim holds stakes in the country&#8217;s telecommunications, construction and banking systems. Monopoly, power and corruption <em>obviously<\/em> haven&#8217;t played a role in this case.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis new level of financial power will undoubtedly require other billionaires to be more creative in order to sustain their positions. America&#8217;s favorite rich man, Donald Trump, has a head start on this idea by dabbling in casinos, television and even bottled water. He crossed the line when he announced the founding of his own university. The following is a possible scenario of the near future, if these trends in extreme financial segregation continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/trump-tombstone.jpg\"\" width=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p>I held the world in the palm of my hand,<br \/>\nWhen my private jet failed to safely land.<\/p>\n<p>I hired a cheaper pilot to save some money I&#8217;ve earned.<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;re Fired&#8221; was my catch phrase,<br \/>\n-but it was me that burned.<\/p>\n<p>My riches and my power could not save me.<br \/>\nInstead, I was killed by luxury.<\/p>\n<p>I could think of only money with my final breath,<br \/>\nBecause greed is much more powerful than death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu&#8217;s fortune recently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[74,157,46,158],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-shift","category-digital-imagery","tag-celebrities","tag-donald-trump","tag-photoshop","tag-poetry"],"featured_image_src":"http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/trmp.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"http:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/trmp.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Adnan Saleem","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/author\/dc\/"},"rbea_author_info":{"display_name":"Adnan Saleem","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/author\/dc\/"},"rbea_excerpt_info":"With Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu&#8217;s fortune recently&hellip;","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/category\/originals\/digital-imagery\/celebrity-shift\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Celebrity Shift<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/category\/originals\/digital-imagery\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Digital Imagery and Animation<\/a>","comments_num":"1 comment","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationcreation.com\/informatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}