Being paid lots of money for doing very little

For some time, my bud Carey and I have been trying to think of a side project. It needs to make us a lot of money, but require us to do only a trivial amount of work, if any. That’s not hard, right?

Well, today, inspiration struck, and I expressed our business plan as succinctly as it can possibly be expressed: “We need to stoke an irrational fear, and then sell protection against that fear.” ‘Course, then we figured out that palm readers, fortune tellers, and the like were already doing exactly that.

Still, we’re thinking on it. So far we’re kicking around meteorite strike insurance, demonic possession insurance, spontaneous human combustion insurance, killer robot insurance, urban bear attack insurance, and maybe a couple of others I’m forgetting at the moment.

See you on the other side, where I’ll be lighting my cigars with $100 bills made on the backs of the unbelievably gullible.

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