3. The Free
Lunch – are you getting any?
Contrary to accepted wisdom in some
quarters, there are such things as Free Lunches.
Not those of the Unemployment Benefit
/ Family Credit / Housing Benefit variety
but those with Menus that can create wealth for individuals,
families and companies who are switched on enough
to understand and take advantage of the world around
them.
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Planning permission
can turn a plot of empty land valued at 200
one day into a building plot worth 30,000
overnight. |
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A Council House bought
during the early 1980s for 25,000,
might have quadrupled in value within twenty years. |
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Successful
results from mineral exploration rights granted
to a Mining or Oil Drilling Company would dramatically
increase the value of your share holding –
if you had one. |
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Privatization
of state industries provided 'loads of money'
for those in the right place at the right time. |
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State
monopolies and franchises have been a 'license
to print money' |
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