Humour
Anything in someone else's hands magically becomes more attractive
Why is it that even if we have the very same things, we'll still covet someone else's?
I recently watched the 1991 flick Other People's Money, starring that butterball Danny de Vito, for what seems like the 87th time.
It's a dark, quirky examination of corporate greed. The main character, played by De Vito, is a slick, vicious, fast-talking one-liner-churning corporate shark named Larry the Liquidator. At one point he sums up his existence by explaining, "I love money ... There's only one thing I love more than money. You know what that is? Other people's money."
The first time I watched the movie, in the early '90s, I was a naïve teen and I thought he was merely expressing his infinite hunger for amassing as much money as he could lay his grubby hands on. You know, the sentiment expressed by our own beyond-reproach Robin Hood, Julius Malema, when he fired that broadside in Patrice Motsepe's direction at the Fighters' birthday celebrations.
Ironically, poor Motsepe had sat stony-faced on the podium as Obama also talked about wealthy individuals who do not know how much money is enough. But this is not about our (if some are to believed) president-in-waiting.
WATCH | The trailer for Other People's Money..
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