Legacy of Greed: Addendum

see also Legacy of Greed: The Getaway and The Takeaway or Part III (tvfs); Legacy of Greed: Paying for Paradise or Let's Connect the Dots Part II (tvfs); Legacy of Greed: Let's Connect the Dots or Why Paradise Papers - Matter - Now (tvfs)

Legacy of Greed: Addendum

Preface

published January 5, 2018 or the Eleventh Day of the Day of Christ (Mass) or the Eve of Epiphany or the Eve of the Day of Three Kings

note prior posts of Epiphany here (tvfs) and here (tvfs)

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When a'praying 'think of us'

are the very fortunate whose fortunes prospered by one trillion and fifty billion dollars in one year (case in point, @ Bloomberg)

When a'pleading 'think of us'

are the very lords and masters who break their bread in bowers for sale for over one billion and five hundred million dollars (case in point, @ Daily Mail)

When a'promising 'we're thinking of you'

are the very patrons whose legacies of greed are testaments of paradise papers (case in point, @ ICIJ)

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In. What. When.

are

such patrons a'promising, such lords and masters a'pleading, such fortunate a'praying

the deserved, the meritorious, the worthy, the righteous?

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Postface

see also The Pen and The Sword in Falling Off the Humble Wagon (tvfs) (and On the Wagon for Good (tvfs))

note also prior post on giving and on gifts and how giving and how gifts revelate in The Giving Holly (tvfs)