As for the second one, it's about a certain kind of person who goes to any company, and that company is bound to go bankrupt.
An owner took a fancy to this fellow's constitution and paid to keep him around. When his own company was competing with a rival, he would dispatch this guy over there, and before long, the opposing firm would run into trouble—either caught for tax evasion, or the boss's sister-in-law running off with the accounts, or the entire industry getting hit by an earthquake.
In short, metaphysics is something you can choose not to believe, but it is very real indeed.
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