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Cheaters Always Prosper

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If you consider stealing synonymous with ``beating the system'' then this book could be for you. For the non-sociopaths of the world you'll somehow have to get an ethical bypass to get any use from this book.

Only a sucker carried childhood dreams of living a noble life of integrity, justice, and quiet dignity. The rest of us thought big and glamorous, and instead fantasized of sneaking into delivery drivers' cars and hiding in corners surreptiously ripping price tags off sweater vests.

A new wardrobe from the airport? Stuff from vending machines? New tires? It could all be yours...FREE! Yes, a whole world of opportunities awaits those who discard those old-fashioned, impractical notions of morality, consequences, and long-term thinking.

This book is obviously not for the morally upstanding--but if you are looking to 'beat the system' by flouting morality, this book will help you finally live the life you so richly deserve.

I don't think you could get away with most of this stuff anymore.

Concerning airport security, etc...

It proposes some good ideas on how to save money, but it's nothing you haven't thought of before.

Scan it in a store, it's not worth buying.

Came by accident on this book. The introduction tells the story on how a teenager manages to succeed in getting a higher-paid part-time job than other teenagers by 'beating the system'. That is an excellent story but the rest, unfortunately, doesnt really deal with climbing the social ladder or how to get the job you want. The 50 tips are quite mixed. Some tips are quite interesting and useful. Some other tips are completely not ethical like stealing in the supermarket or other frauding tips.
This book does not really tell you how to beat the system but to take advantage of the system by lying, faking and cheating. In my opinion, some tips can be quite useful to you (not all of them, at your own risk). What I see in this book is that it reveals a truth about our system, that you need to lie sometimes in order to survive. If you say the truth, people may take advantage of you (especially by opportunists). If you lie, you may either be able to protect you either take advantage of the situation. Here we are in an urban jungle and sometimes that the only way for us to survive. A question: what is lying to a liar?

To summarize, this book seems to me one of these another 'anarchy' books. It has nothing more than these 50 tips and it would have be niced if it contains more analysis like why the author decided to choose this way (lying) and not the other ways.

This book is designed for true loop-hole aficionados--the sort of people who love nothing better than to find the cracks in the system and slip through them.

All of the scenarios Brazil has described are extremely plausible, and most are quite practical. I, myself, have conducted variations of several of his suggestions, with results that cannot be described as anything but flawless.

In short: It Works.

A word of caution: this book is designed for the opportunist, not the moralist. If you find yourself offended by the fact that some people in society engage in morally questionable behaviour to get what they want, then this is definitely not the book for you.

That being said, I recommend it without reservation. Even if you never put this knowledge to use, it is still great fun to read. Share and enjoy.

I was reading another book (philosophy related) that referred to the Carol publishing book series and it mentioned this title by name. It intrigued me, it honestly did. I didn't know whether it was about cheating at games, human relations, or what it was actually about. Anyone who has EVER had ANY integrity in their lives should not come NEAR this book. This wasn't about cheating someone who has cheated you, evening "the system", or tricks to just get by when you are poor as dirt. This was about cheap tricks to do for no other purpose than to do them. If you find yourself so desperate that you need to start swapping lables at the supermarket, you may want to evaluate how you're spending money, and your entire budget in the first place.

Maybe the Army fried my brain, but integrity has always been one of my strong points. Stealing just to steal/lying just to lie/cheating just to cheat- doesn't do it for me. I'm no angel, but what I've done was at least for a reason of somekind.

No one can be THIS bored. I've been this poor, and I STILL couldn't bring myself to do half the things in this book. They're not even worth the risk of doing them poorly.

I admit, I couldn't read this book cover to cover. I tried. I kept trying to find some justifiable reason that I bought this. As it stands now, I wouldn't use this book to prop up my furniture.

Fantastic book! A must-have for those people who feel cheated by the capitalist system. James Brazil is a revolutionary thinker, years ahead of his time.

This guy - James Brazil - is a genius. When your parents raise you, they somehow always seem to leave out the fact that people cheat in the real world, too. This rectifies that situation. Quickly.