| From: | TopCat <topcat@******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: Killing in Shadowrun... |
| Date: | Tue, 21 May 1996 13:12:07 -0500 |
>>>>the shareholders know that it got taken care of, and quietly.
>>>If it's done quietly, how should the shareholders know?
>>Because shareholders are privvy to information that the general public is not.
>Hey! My character /is/ a shareholder in more then oppne false identities!
>I am really interested in the official statements of a corp, pet projects
>etc that come with holding (a few, OK) shares.
So you'll get info like "Our corp does many things. From building design to
pharmaceuticals. With our corp, you can't go wrong". Now if you buy up a
few hundred million in stock, you might be able to get some useful info. If
you can get a few hundred million worth of the stock from a current
stockholder (good luck).
>And YOUR plan it was to set up a meet with the runners to have 'em all executed
>by snipers (to cut losses to a minimum). By THAT time, your goodies will have
>grey hair :-)
I have thousands of plans, that's just one of them.
>>> They will have to pay for the revenge.
>>Sure, but the pay is a pittance to the corp and can be worth more than was
>>spent if handled right.
>Nonsense. Not even a hundred or so nuyen are "a pittance". You have to
explain
>every single nuyen, ad why you spent it, and why you didn't turn it into
>wins, and why you have /once again/ lived over your budget. Rich people are not
>rich because they spend their money, Corps even less so.
The art of burying expenses in reports is not lost on corporations or
governments. If you can't hide a few hundred thousand in a quarterly report
over hundreds of billions of nuyen, then you have no business doing any
accounting for the corporation. In fact, if you can't hide millions in the
shuffle somewhere, you're useless.
Rich people get rich by spending their money. They buy things that grow in
value and become worth more. Often it is stock they buy. If they don't buy
anything they are just street people with large, unused bank accounts. If
they leave their money in a "normal" account at a bank (CD's, savings,
checking, whatever) they won't make near as much on it as they would by
purchasing stock and it won't be insured for the full amount (FDIC insures
up to 100,000 dollars currently). Ask some fairly rich people that you know
sometime what they do with their money (if you know any well enough, of
course). Most will say they invest. In what? Real estate and stocks,
mostly. Any that say they leave it in the bank are usually pretty dim or
inherited the cash and don't know what to do with it and are afraid of being
taken for it.
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