Antoine de Saint-Exupéry about the financial crisis

From the “Little Prince” :-)

- Do you have five hundred million stars? What are you doing with them? The rich man asked the little prince.
- Do not do anything. I own them - the answer is rich.
- And why do you own the stars?
- To be rich.
- And why be rich?
- To buy more new stars.
- How can you own the stars? What can you do with them?
- I count them and recount.

However, this little prince was not enough.
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“If I have a silk scarf, I can tie it around my neck,” he said. If I have a flower, I can pick it and take it with me. But you can't take the stars!
- No, but I can put them in the bank.
- Like this?
- And so: I write on a piece of paper, how many stars I have. Then I put this piece of paper in the box and lock it with a key.

“No, adults are truly amazing people,” the Little Prince said to himself innocently and continued on his way ...