The 6 Pack Economist

There are no free lunches, just cheap food with a sales pitch.  Don’t be sad, this is just how the world works.  This is a good thing.  There is another cliché that goes along with this.  You get what you pay for.

But what about “love”, love takes time, and time is money.  I would also say that it takes money too.  How often do you stand in the street just staring at each other?  Not much, usually shared time involves getting dinner, seeing a movie, or taking a vacation.  All take time and money. 

I was watching the movie “The Beach” with Leonardo DiCaprio, which despite being a marketed as a chick flick, was rather good.  I know that I dismissed it when it came out eight years ago as just a movie for girls in love with Leonardo.  The movie focuses around a hidden paradise.  One of the striking things about the paradise enclave was that they still depended on the outside world.  To do this they sold Pot to the outside world to get various luxury items for themselves.  Even in this paradise they still needed an exchange of goods to survive. 

If you can’t get free stuff in paradise you ain’t getting nutten ‘ere either.