UnReal Estate 10 Compound Interest HQ

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Sung by Larry Warner. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. • Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_unre... • ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Lyrics: • (Chorus) • Space is dark and space is deep, • But so is the vault in which we keep • One thousand years of hazard pay • Where interest compounds every day, • And accountants there will testify • That there's naught we see that we can't buy. • When we signed up for deep space, we knew we'd be gone a while, • So I made some arrangements that should set us up in style: • A tax-free trust receives our pay from our hard-won careers • At interest rates that double our net worth each seven years. • And so we set out on our trip through interstellar space; • Five hundred years we traveled, as our money grew apace. • There's thirty thousand trillion trillion dollars in the till • When some unknown caretaker breaks a seal to know our will. • • (Chorus) • “If hyperdrive exists, then off of Earth diversify. • If not, then to develop it all proceeds please apply. • And if we are successful, then the secret hold quite dear, • And send someone to meet us when our target star we near.” • • Ten years from when we set the quest, they found the hyperdrive, • And man spread to a million stars, and we own all but five. • For we control all commerce, any trade must feed our trust, • And every ship that moves must lease the hyperdrive from us. • (Chorus) • As we awoke from frozen sleep, we all knew what to do. • We each phoned up our broker just to ask him what was new. • One thousand years of compound interest leads to lovely thoughts, • Like assets in the range of three followed by fifty naughts. • Now we know everybody can't do everything we've done; • This only works if you're the first to leave your native sun. • But still there is the lesson here that patience can win out: • If this week things don't go your way, then wait the bastards out. • (Chorus)

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