'All animals are equal, some more equal than others'

Kerry Packer was worth $6.5 Billion AUD when he died. Before John D. Rockerfeller died, he was the first American man to be called a billionaire. Peter Chi is 18 years old and is worth a net total of about $5000 give, or take. Peter Chi doesn't even have life insurance, let alone a savings fund.

So what does Australia's biggest media tycoon, and the State's first oil entrepreneur have in common with the self-described witty and charming nobody?

Nothing. I just wanted to put my name in retrospect to two of the biggest money farmers of our time. No delusions of grandeur and fortune here. Just an introspect with a very vague outlook toward the future.

With so much going on in the world at times like this - the influx of information at rates faster than we could actually fathom or register in one lifetime, the cresses of modern society expecting everything from everyone. Slowly but surely, human lifestyle won't be about survival, it won't be about natural selection; Darwin's done his papers, and now it's outdated and made redundant. Human life as we know it, will be centred among the ultimate strive of perfection. The standards of living of life rises to an incredible degree; take a leap back to the 1700s where personal hygiene was spartan and primitive. Jump to 1970s, you've got your first television set, pop to 2008 where gigantic conglomerates Sony and Toshiba battle it out for the next biggest deal since the VCR. Big Sexy Blu-Ray versus the Bad-ass that is HD-DVD.

See, we live in a world where the system is the fast lane. At least that's what this collectively cool cucumber surmises. Hear about the story of the guy who made $17 million in fifteen minutes? All he did was watch the stocks of oil fluctuate, click a few buttons, and in fifteen minutes, he showcased his brand new Ferrari garage.

Ha! Did i say we lived in the fast lane? I'm sorry, that only applies for the societal elite who've actually accrued that massive amount of money, enough money to power a small third world country and sponsor those third world Kenyan children to become Olympic Athletes. There's all those greens floating on a non-existent plane. The rich will get richer, but for everyone who flies economy class, tough luck son.

So where does Peter Chi fit into the grand scheme of life? He's drowning in the pool of abstinence and apathy along with every John Doe, and Joe Smith who wants to get anywhere past a mortgage repayment. What he wants? Nothing really. Maybe to have a small share of Mister seven-teen-minute-oil-baron-billionaire. So the fact of the matter is that, evidently these stories of quick earned success may be a proven and successful motivator of working hard, of being intuitive, knowledgeable, and squillions of other factors.

Either way, I'm hungry for my piece of the corporate pie.