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Saint and Sinner, Freelance Edition

by Rico on July 29th, 2008

Here’s a story that will surely blow your minds. Imagine yourself as a freelancer trying to make it in the contract work world, with parents who spent their whole lives putting you through school as corporate minions, and you’ll see what I mean. Continue reading to also see what the picture above is all about!

Who here knows about The Borgias? Quick explanation: they’re a Spanish family who ended up featured on a Mario Puzo book, thanks to historical rumors of their debauchery and incest. The patriarch, a certain Rodrigo, was also known as Pope Alexander VI, and went down as history as the most “secular” the holy sees.

I guess that’s what you get when you maintain multiple mistresses and abuse your power as Pope to give your kids kingdoms of their own. In any case, Rodrigo’s great-grandson, Francis, also carried the Borgia name. Yet in a stunning reversal of the family rep, Francis was hailed as a saint during his own time (you know, like a 16th century version of Mother Teresa, only male).

Eventually he was canonized in 1672. And oh yeah, while alive, Francis headed some group called the Jesuits.

What’s the point? Well the corporate lifestyle isn’t as evil as the earlier Borgias were, to be sure. If anyone with really really corrupt relatives can become a saint, then why can’t the child of corporate parents become a freelancer?

(Then again, both girls in the pic above are naughty) wikipedia.org, ket-su

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