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[opabinia]

Here it is again: The unpleasant sensation of wanting what I want right now, not later.

To get what I want before I'm too old to enjoy it, I need the Money Hat. I should take out a gigantic loan, commission a fleet of Sri Lankan fishing boats, and get rich:

http://www.internationalreports.net/asiapacific/srilanka/2003/agricult.html

The country boasts bountiful fishing waters, but the war forced the government to curtail fishing activity along most of the coasts. For twenty years, Sri Lanka fishermen were permitted to do little commercial fishing, and the country imported the fish it consumed. Now that the ceasefire is in effect, fishing could resume, but after 20 years, the country has only a few small boats. The fishing industry is so meager that J.C. Amarasuriya, Chairman of the Board of the Commercial Bank of Ceylon, quips, “Sri Lankan fish die of old age.”

I'll need business partners. Who's in? Sinhala and Tamil would be a plus.

Is it a peaceful place, now? I'm so ignorant. I just need to know if I can profit from exploiting their cheap labor. Fishermen are probably safe from assassination, right? High turnover is a pain.

Comments

[silas7.livejournal.com]

aye, cap'n. Can we name our boat Serenity?

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

I was thinking "Tamil Tigress," but that's probably a smarter choice.

[pyrric.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a peaceful place if you don't count tsunamis and their rotting-corpses-in-the-road aftermaths.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Pfft. That's like saying Florida is nice except for the hurricanes, and NYC is nice except for the terrorist attacks. ;)