He Who Dies With The Most Debt Wins

When I was conversing with the demi-gods of economics at the University of Chicago - not the nobel winners, rather the students who coveted being future nobel prize winners, I am reminiscing about the first year of grad school (known as "The First Year). Ken, Shannon and I would sit around the International House bending our mind to the latest theories (and the lack of fleshly pleasure).

Someone had brought up the slogan "he who dies with the most toys wins." I took that and transfigured it into "he who dies with the most debt wins." Everyone got it. Shannon wrote it down and posted it on his dorm door he was so moved.

Debt being the objective was a horribly ironic concept at the time, and know we see what happens when this quantum reality is made flesh (i.e., it is not longer a schroedinger probability).

Oh prophets of doom, open your mind and seek reality and prophesize from the realm of the four-leaf clover instead of the three. You have to be willing to accept leprochans and unicorns in the schroedinger's cat theory of reality.

This is the box you need to think your way out of.........