Not so long ago people were enslaved by other than comfort, choice, and convenience.
Sep 272017
Getting
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Aug 092017
To take a bribe and deliver nothing in return makes one no less corrupt, only less reliable.
Mar 272017
It is possible to be overprivileged, and certainly to be underprivileged, but not, it seems, to be privileged just right.
Mar 012017
Every discipline attempts to transfer sovereignty from the consumer to the producer; “professionalism” is our name for a successful coup.
Feb 152017
You can have nice things, or you can let everybody use them.
Feb 132017
To lose one’s money folly used to be enough; today it also requires ambition.
Jan 252017
Most of us have finally learned to stop glamorizing poverty; now if we could only learn to stop glamorizing wealth.
Dec 192016
So many arguments won, and still no spoils.
Dec 012016
We are rich, and adapted to be poor, and thus miserable.
Nov 212016
We can forgive capitalism, democracy, and technology for giving us what we want, but not for showing us what we want.