As Real as Air-Guitar

I am an admirer of Capitalism. And I am an admirer of entrepreneurs.

Usually, an entrepreneur sells something like gadgets or software or services like housecleaning or tax preparation. Usually there is some cost or time or effort or creativity involved in the production of the product, for which the entrepreneur is compensated by the price he charges for it.

But the greatest entrepreneur since P. T. Barnum has got to be the geniuses that sell "Carbon Credits".

Are you kidding me? Couple of years ago there was no such thing. But today, without cost, time, effort, creativity, or any other kind of investment, these guys have created a "commodity" out of thin fucking air and are selling it to people, for actual real money!

I really hate these assholes. But it's hard not to admire their sheer audacity and their uncanny ability to bilk those suckers born every minute, as their role-model famously did.

The Gunslinger