It Is Easy to Get Rich and Powerful| ثروتمندوقدرتمندشدن آسان است

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“99th story”

First published: July.11.2019

165 Words

 

Mahmood was a young poor boy from a village.

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He started working at age five and learned masonry from his father. When he grew up to be 18, he decided to go to a big city and start a proper job.

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He started working for a factory. When he heard that the factory wanted to build a wall around its land, he offered the cheapest price to build the wall.

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The factory owner was happy about the cheap offer and made Mahmood responsible for ordering the materials and building the wall. Mahmood stole half the materials and sold them. After two years the wall was finished and Mahmood was rich.

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With his savings, he invested in expensive rugs stored and insured them.

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After a few months, his storage burned down.

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When the insurance company sent an appraiser, they confirmed that the remaining ashes were rugs. Mahmood made a fortune.

But Mahmood had removed all the expensive rugs before the fire, and the remaining were some old rugs.

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Mahmood did so many of these tricks and grew so fast and his wealth was uncountable.

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He couldn’t stop there and had to get into politics. Now he just had to decide where to start, become a mayor? Governor? Senator? Or maybe even run for the presidency.

 

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  1. Sheree
    July 11, 2019 • 8:30 am

    Sadly sounds like the sort of chap who politicians tend to appoint as « business advisors »

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  2. hassanmosleh
    July 11, 2019 • 9:35 am

    It’s good to be rich but not the way Mahmoud became and most of these people go to politics, lol. Thanks for posting this beautiful story.

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  5. Indira
    July 11, 2019 • 10:32 am

    Politicians are same everywhere….after wealth and power!!

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  6. The Pensieve
    July 11, 2019 • 11:51 am

    Hmm…. Such wealth leads to no good. Sounds like an interesting premise though. I wish you all the very best for your book, Laleh! ✌️

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  7. Sunith
    July 11, 2019 • 12:58 pm

    When they become rich they need to protect the wealth and therefore getting into power is the best way to safeguard it…

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  8. equipsblog
    July 11, 2019 • 1:04 pm

    I kept hoping that Mahmoud (or Moudever) would get his comeuppance. Maybe in the next chapter….

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  9. Rosaliene Bacchus
    July 11, 2019 • 2:04 pm

    Sounds like a familiar backstory for far too many of our politicians worldwide.

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  10. cactusflower18
    July 11, 2019 • 3:04 pm

    This is true? Unfortunate and very sad….doing wrong though has a way of surfacing either sooner or later and one must pay the price!

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  11. Superduque
    July 11, 2019 • 6:55 pm

    But it does not make sense if you have to die,,,

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  13. derrickjknight
    July 12, 2019 • 6:10 am

    How subtle – to disguise him as a Muslim

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  14. Len Kagami
    July 12, 2019 • 11:45 am

    This sounds similar to someone we all know 🙂 Always use tricks and lies to get what he wants.

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  15. Ink 'em Down
    July 13, 2019 • 7:37 am

    That’s a great story, Laleh! 😊
    Most people like that usually end up in politics. Cuz that’s where they can supposedly ‘hide and thrive’.

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  16. fulvialuna1
    July 14, 2019 • 4:02 pm

    Sarebbe un perfetto politico dei nostri tempi…purtroppo.

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  17. Shantanu Baruah
    July 14, 2019 • 7:55 pm

    This is interesting – to become filthy rich, join politics – 😊

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  18. usfman
    July 16, 2019 • 4:09 pm

    As your blog points out, one can be very leery of those who have money Corruption stinks.

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  19. janetsm
    July 17, 2019 • 9:02 pm

    I thought you were talking about the current occupant of the White House, but I guess it’s the way things are in many countries. It’s so sad, and it’s hard to be optimistic about the future.

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  21. myexpressionofthoughtsblog
    July 18, 2019 • 9:00 am

    Sad but money often makes your conscious die.

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  22. tomhudson
    July 20, 2019 • 8:22 am

    It seems like politicians all have this same mentality. This is a good, thought-provoking story.

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  24. Jonathan Caswell
    July 27, 2019 • 1:45 pm

    Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
    VERY SHREWD IN GOOD WAYS!

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  25. jmshistorycorner
    August 10, 2019 • 11:45 pm

    Sounds like a typical politician.

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  28. Orvillewrong
    December 28, 2020 • 10:02 am

    As we know, once corrupt always corrupt!

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  29. Martina Ramsauer
    December 28, 2020 • 3:15 pm

    Isn‘t it strange that nobody in our sooo intelligent societies discovers what this wise guy does? Many thanks for your clever story and best regards Martina

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  30. www.corneliaweber-photography.com
    December 28, 2020 • 10:06 pm

    Hm , this attitude will backfire at some point. I can’t help it, but it reminds me of a man who still runs our country here.

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  31. markbierman
    December 30, 2020 • 6:24 am

    Explains alot about the mess many countries find themselves in. Great story, Laleh.

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  32. Lahoucine Elassry
    January 7, 2021 • 10:19 am

    To be rich is so easy ,but not like Ahmed

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