The Rich are Not your Friend

Caveat emptor when you listen to the rich and their argument against your better interests

https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

always and forever

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers - Socrates

Life is Short

"Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material" --- Marcus Aurelius

Whats on The Night Table Now

The local library just emailed me that we're good to go for picking up stuff. COVID-19 forced some safety measures which actually I prefer. I park at an assigned spot, call the number and provide my library card number and they walk out with my book.

Can we do this forever?

So the book I finally get my greedy little hands on?

Winners Take All

The Elite Charade of Changing the World

By Anand Giridharadas

Im very excited to devour this little tome.

Oh, and the quote page before the table of contents? This little gem.

Giddy Up!

Light

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light

 - Plato 

class warfare

It's class warfare, and we're not winning

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/how-marie-and-ed-bosarges-divorce-spotlights-south-dakotas-asset-trusts.html

True then. True now.

"Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy" 

--- Epictetus