Jack the Giant Killer is my least favorite fairy tale. Jack climbed up the beanstalk and he stole gold coins from the Giant. He went back a second time and stole a hen that laid golden eggs. Lastly, greedy Jack stole a talking harp that cried out to the Giant for help. And for that, Jack is considered a HERO??? Jack probably grew up to be CEO at a major investment bank.
What about the poor Giant?
Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishmun.
Be he ‘live, or be he dead,
I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.
~Quotation from the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk
It’s rumored he became a hedge fund manager.
Yeah, I always reckoned the giant got shafter in that story. Didn’t blame him for wanting to make Jack into bean (and bones) stew. I reckon the giant of the USA general public has been ripped off greatly by a pile of smartass little Jacks over there.
I regret I was not more like the Giant – keeping my gold coins and golden eggs close by my side. But, alas, there will always be a Jack to ferret out and “take over” one’s treasures.
What if Jack is the “we the people” and the giant is “big brother” in the story? Just wondering . . .
Yep when the tale was created you still had lords hording their wealth and the masses living seriously crappy lives.
Beans are better than bonds. : )
Yeah and now Jack is buying Green Industry futures. Watch for the next big bubble – you heard it here first (maybe).
I never looked at the story like that. But, now, thinking about it, it is not a good story to be telling children. Well it seems we have a lot of Jacks stealing the hard earned money of many these days.
This made me LOL.
So witty you are!
6726 … closing time of the DOW today, no gain from yesterdays slide. The DOW is like the mercury-thermometer stuck in everybody’s ass these days, no matter if you own stock in the market or not. Soon that thing will crack and poison everyone.
Jack????? Terrible story. Typical Victorian area bullshit.
OK Sera, you’ll design some pants for me, let’s have our very own economy.
Basta!
….oh, measurements: 31.5 inches waist, 32 inches from crotch to heel, something like that. Make them black, I’m in mourning; and add some hippie-embroidery somewhere just for sentimental reasons. Thanks.
I think Jack was a communist.
Yeah, couldn’t we just see it as Jack liberating the ill gotten gains hoarded by the greedy CEO giant?
so what’s your favourite fairy tale? I liked Rumplestiltskin
Time for legislation to give shareholders (who after all are the owners of the business and far less likely to want to reward poor or mediocre performance with large salaries and bonuses) a mandatory binding vote to approve- or send back to the drawing room – proposed remuneration packages for all the senior executives!
Shareholders and employees of corporations on the whole expect their oprganisations to operate openly and honestly. The sharholders might also like to quiz the executives as to why in 2007, according to Bloomberg 83 from the 100 largest public U.S. companies operated units in low-tax or no-tax jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands or the Isle of Man. Bloomberg reported this was based upon a congressional report released in January.
Companies included AIG, Citigroup Inc, Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley which were also all recipients to taxpayer money through the $700 billion financial rescue. See http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aWDQWshGiCig&refer=home
The story as I first heard it was that Jack’s family had once been rich – the owners of a fortune, including a hen that laid golden eggs, and a harp. But the giant killed Jack’s father and stole the gold, the hen, and the harp, and Jack and his mother were force to sell everything, bit by bit, till there was nothing left to sell but the cow.
He was supposed to sell the cow for money for food, but he traded it to the mysterious man who told him the magic beans he’d get in exchange would prove to be good luck for him.
I like that version better. If it’s not the right version, I don’t really want to know.