The village idiot of Las Vegas hangs out with a living legend...Part 8

You know what my friend Jayball told me the other day. He said that I reminded him of this dumb son of a bitch he knew back at NYU. "Jethro, it's a good thing that you don't live in New York or Boston." Jayball is a big city boy, the penthouse, the prep school, the weekends at Del Mar. My grand daddy would call it the life of Riley.

"Jethro, if you lived in a big town back East, you would be the guy who would get all of his money hustled from him in a shell game. They'd spot you a mile away. I can see it now, here comes Jethro, let's get ready to take his money, and the thing is, you'd be too gullible to know it was happening." A lot of times Jayball thinks that I'm some hillbilly who just fell off the turnip truck. The truth of the matter is that we have a fundamental disagreement on how the country will look in the future. He basically thinks things will stay the same, while I predict foreign consumers will be the wave of the future for entrepreneurship in this country.

"What do your friends think of you running around Chinatown, and your ideas about Asian growth strategies, and all this other shit you talk about? You ain't got a chance of making any money by hanging around a bunch of Orientals. When are you going to realize that?" Jayball has a pragmatic view on where a lot of things are headed in this country. The problem with him being a pragmatist is that he's excluding a lot of the real world out of his views. Most of the time I put up with his smart mouth because he is so cool, but I can only be a punching bag for so long before I'm forced to defend myself. 

"Listen Jayball, the coolest thing about you by a mile is that you are so popular with all the beautiful women in Las Vegas. That's what makes you Jayball! I could go to skip everything else. Listen, the Chinese are the largest consumers of luxury goods by a fucking mile! The gaming revenue in Macau is six times what Vegas does! They're forecasting a brand new middle class of 100 million people by 2020! Oh, don't forget to  take into account they're holding two trillion plus in currency reserves while we're in a seventeen trillion dollar hole: My grand daddy told me that it was important to read the writing on the wall. If you do that boy; you'll be way ahead of the average Joe. Those were his exact words. I'm just reading the writing on the wall when I talk about China."

I like to end every post of mine with a thought I'm having...Call it the village idiot thought of the day. "Guys like Jayball tend to only know one thing or have one way of thinking, which is fine with me. On the other hand, guys like me, and this may sound narcissistic to some? We tend to believe that opportunity lies in places that are different from the norm. That last statement is probably the best reason I'm a registered Libertarian."