A Far Out Economic Theory

I used to believe that if Man ever got to Mars
his motivation to go would be tax avoidance.
The rich would want to hide their money there
when it became the safest tax haven in the universe.

I know now was wrong,
when man gets to Mars,
by way of the stars,
the point of the takeover
will be to makeover
the gambling industry.

Mars will be used to launder the money
gained from weakly licensed gambling
and the mass sales of popular drugs,
sufficient for the money seem clean
before its return to Planet Earth.

The gravity of Mars
will draw money from afar
in a perfect financial vacuum.
The most courageous
will be the most steadfastly corrupt;
they and they alone will control
the return of the money
to create an earthly paradise

The Liquidity Of Life

-when wine is young it lacks character
which makes it easy to sell en masse
on supermarket shelves. Like youth
it is oversold and rather raw on the palate.
  
As wine matures it gains character,
which makes it harder to sell.
This is why it gets auctioned off,
to be sold cheap in seconds shops
where the curious buy it in quantity
and enjoy the unpredictability of choice.
Like being elderly it is surplus
to major suppliers and manufacturers.