Jason Weiser

is $50,000 because the car companies found that they could make a really expensive car and market it to wealthy people and make more than they would selling a reasonably priced car without like an IMAX screen on the dash and unicorn leather seats to the rest of us.

That was where old Timber Top ended up.

He controlled the entire harvesting and production process, so unless his country brethren could afford city prices, and they couldn't, it looked like they also couldn't build fences and sheds to protect their pigs from the tigers that came down from the mountains.

The most beautiful trees of all, though, were those sweet, sweet grave trees.

To honor the deceased, people would plant trees around the graves of their ancestors and tend them meticulously.

Life is unpredictable, though less so when one guy controls all the building materials in the region and has a reputation of being someone who would skin a mosquito for its hide and tallow.

When families were inevitably unable to afford food, old Timber Top would swoop in and get the trees by their ancestors' graves for pennies on the dollar.

Old Timber Top noticed two things.

One, the more he had, the more he wanted.

Where he once saw the equivalent of hundreds of thousands per year as extravagant, he now saw it as poverty.

The second thing he noticed was that he wasn't happy.

Everyone hated him for some reason, and he always suspected the people who did like him only liked him for his money.

He decided that that was a them problem.

He was simply better, because having spent too long in the city, his tastes had grown more refined.

And they obviously hated him for that and only that reason.

No one saw him off when he left for Seoul, not even his own family, who he left behind on, quote, the cheapest kind of kimchi.

To quote David Cross on Mr. Show, more money equals better than.

So, even though old Timbertop was not a scholar, he had no knowledge of the law or medicine, he had never served anyone in any capacity, so of course he hadn't been a soldier and knew nothing of war or strategy, and he couldn't even ride a monocycle, like the story tells us all the guys in Seoul could.

Despite all those things, he was rich, so naturally he would be given respect and honor and a place in the government.

This was not what happened.