Power;

People say that knowledge is power.

The more knowledge, the more power.

Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery?
All of them?
Not guessed them, not dreamed them, but really knew them?
What would you do?
You would run to the store, is what.
You would mark those numbers on the playslip.

And you would win.

Same for the stock market.
Suppose you really knew what was going to go way up?
You're not talking about a hunch or a gut feeling here.
You're not talking about a trend or a percentage game,
or a whisper or a tip.

You're talking about knowledge.
Real, hard knowledge.

Supposed you had it?
What would you do?
You would call your broker, is what.
You would buy.
Then later you'd sell,
& you'll be rich.

Same for football, same for horses, whatever,
anything.
Any kind of sports at all.
If you could predict the future,
you'd be home and dry.

No question.
Same for the Oscars, same for the Nobel Prize,
same for the first snowfall of winter.
Same for anything.

People say that knowledge is power.
The more knowledge, the more power.

Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth.

Because when i told you what i did,
you knew.
Whatever i knew from the start.

& i had to tell you,
because knowledge is power.