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If you think $500k is a reasonable amount to "invest" in business school, then it really isn't any wonder how you didn't get in on your own merit.

I would want you to break-in just so you can be on the other side of my trades.

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Or you could buy international dividend stocks with that $500K and get $35K/year in dividends. Do you know what kind of a life $35K/year can buy you in Holland, Michigan? It's America's happiest town, has a church for every 200 residents, sits on Lake Michigan, gets 7 feet of snow every winter, and has a tulip festival every summer!

$35K/year buys you a rusty honda, membership in the book club, and a couple mission trips to help clean up after hurricanes every year. I say invest the $500K instead and have a nice, happy, retired, Norman Rockwell life. It's one thing to GET to work in finance, it's another to HAVE to work in finance.

 

^IP, for some reason I think that people who are ready to shell out $500k for a ‘prestigious’ MBA degree don’t place much value in attending tulip festivals, being members of book clubs, having a Honda, and living in Holland, MI.

 

But they should! They need to come to da polka dance and enjoy a pig-in-a-blanket dish maybe with some Leinenkugel's. I think dat will change their minds.

If that doesn't change their minds, maybe the hang gliding and diving will, but who wants to do that when you've got 7 feet of snow and hundreds of churches and mission trips to enjoy? Oh well, has anybody seen the Cleavers? I need to give dem da pumpkin pie for de church potluck.

 

I'm pretty sure a $500,000 donation could get you into an M7. If nothing else, you could easily pay someone of considerable influence $500K to get you in. You may think that because some of these guys have so much money they wouldn't be troubled to do it, but you may be surprised how cheap and out for an easy buck these fuckers are.

Even still, I'd say its absolutely do-able because there's the easy way mentioned above and then there's the hard way... $500K is alot of resources to throw at something. Imagine all the ammunition that a $50K all expenses paid trip to Vegas/Miami/Brazil/Amersterdam, $50K in prositutes, $200K worth of private investigators etc... could provide... then combine it all and add some bribe money.

There are very few, if any, wants in this world that money cannot provide.

 

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