Ik heb hier zelfs nog een spel liggen van een Duitse uitgever waar destijds een Nederlandstalige versie van uitgekomen is.

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Op de versie die ik heb, staat gewoon 'Goud, macht en piraten' op de voorkant. ;-)

"18 straight whiskies. I think that's the record."
Naar 't schijnt de laatste woorden van dichter Dylan Thomas 8-)

De toestand is hopeloos, maar niet ernstig.

Haha, Daerden in één van zijn zatte speeches?

Luc Van der Kelen: ‘Hoe vaak kan een lijk tot leven worden gewekt? Men kan het zich afvragen nu Johan Vande Lanotte bemiddelaar is geworden.’

"Ook dat zou bijdragen tot de loyaliteit van de vreemdelingen, en vermoedelijk zou iedereen zonder een stad naar het recht verlangen om zich in Athene te mogen vestigen, waardoor onze inkomsten zouden stijgen. ...
Indien wij daarenboven de bij ons gevestigde vreemdelingen het recht gaven om in de cavalerie te dienen, en hun verschillende andere privileges toekenden die hun met rede zouden toekomen, dan denk ik dat wij hun loyaliteit en daarmee tegelijkertijd de kracht en grootsheid van de staat zouden zien toenemen."
Xenophon, Ways and Means [Poroi],3.4. :mrgreen:

"The plans and projects of the employers of stock
regulate and direct all the most important operation of labour,
and profit is the end proposed by all those plans and projects. But
the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity,
and fall with the declension of the society. On the contrary,
it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is
always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
The interest of this third order, therefore, has not the same
connexion with the general interest of the society, as that of the
other two. Merchants and master manufacturers are, in this order,
the two classes of people who commonly employ the largest capitals,
and who by their wealth draw to themselves the greatest share
of the public consideration. As during their whole lives they are
engaged in plans and projects, they have frequently more acuteness
of understanding than the greater part of country gentlemen.
As their thoughts, however, are commonly exercised rather about
the interest of their own particular branch of business. than about
that of the society, their judgment, even when given with the greatest
candour (which it has not been upon every occasion), is much
more to be depended upon with regard to the former of those two
objects, than with regard to the latter. Their superiority over the
country gentleman is, not so much in their knowledge of the public
interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own
interest than he has of his. It is by this superior knowledge of their
own interest that they have frequently imposed upon his generosity,
and persuaded him to give up both his own interest and that
of the public, from a very simple but honest conviction, that their
interest, and not his, was the interest of the public. The interest of
the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures,
is always in some respects different from, and even opposite
to, that of the public. To widen the market, and to narrow the
competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the
market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the
public; but to narrow the competition must always be against it,
and can only serve to enable the dealers, by raising their profits
above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit,
an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens. The proposal
of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this
order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and
ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully
examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most
suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest
is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have
generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public,
and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived
and oppressed it."

Adam Smith, Wealth of nations

Hoed u voor politiekers die teveel aanlurken bij de ondernemers. De vader van de vrije markt zegge het zelve.

blow yourself to pieces