What about when Spirit has a direct flight and everyone else is a connecting flight? My other half flew Spirit recently for this reason and upgraded his ticket. He was sitting next to business people who flew them preferentially. We would do almost anything to avoid connections now.
I was a total CF until I started reading your newsletter. Now I am in recovery.
I had the same experience upgrading my neighborhood in the last place we lived. I bought a fixer in an all custom home neighborhood and neighbors were less snotty, not more. We had a low status address and lived in a neighborhood almost no one knew existed.
I read your article, and I think you absolutely disregard the clearly abusive behavior of many large corporations. You are correct that most people have no issue with small business, and consider it a vital part of communities. Small and middle class business people are often rich, and they are supposed to be the back bone of the economy. But when you have CEOs of large corporations pumping up prices for things like healthcare, for essential products and services, when they are milking down the government for subsidies all while paying out dividends to shareholders and watching the national debt going up, when they are driving SMEs out of business so they can establish monopolies and completely control pricing, when banks and insurance companies literally decide about life and death of entire communities, then things are out of whack.
I read a post today from a person who said, relative to the Big, Beautiful, Bill, that “the government is stealing from the poor for tax breaks for the rich”. I find this logic to be totally backwards. The government is literally “stealing” from the rich (with a threat of massive fines or even jail time for non compliance) to give to the poor. To be clear, we can talk about how best to support those less fortunate, but let’s be honest about who’s paying who.
But Taxes are for what?. Banks create money. Why tax?. Not that Corps pay much.
Rokkerfeller destroyed Medicine and ran everyone else out of the Oil Business.
Gates calls it Philanthropy but no one else would. Says he is donatiing to Science funds research and uses the Tech to create products. He says its a 1-10 or 20 return. What a guy plus his Vaccines are poison.
"I have sympathy. It’s a mental illness, more than anything. " while i am a generous tipper , and generous with family and friends , and miles away from being a billionaire , after a life time of saving /investing and not spending , i find it impossible to spend on my self . i never thought of it as a mental illness .
Dude, I don’t always agree 100% with what you say, but that’s one of the many reasons I love your Posts… the honesty in your writing is super refreshing, man! 🍻
I have to disagree with your statement that richer people make better neighbors. From my 60 years of living many places around the US and a few around the world, I’d say it’s random at best and from my experiences the worst neighbors were in multi-millionaire neighborhoods. I think less rich people pull together more in their neighborhoods and are generally friendlier. Now I’ve only lived in lower middle class working neighborhoods up to multi-millionaire neighborhoods so I can’t comment on living in a trailer park.
I agree that the rich are usually classier and more pleasant to be around, not to mention that you usually don’t need to worry about them stealing from you. OTOH it seems like they don’t have the honor that they used to have. Look at the United health CEO who was killed, people made a folk hero out of Mangione.
Depends on which rich as he pointed out with The Hamptons. In my last neighborhood we had one family who were super rich and I did not know until the husband was teaching a Sunday School lesson talking about visiting and overseas factory, so I googled him. His wife was the only one to volunteer when a truly dirty job needed to be done. After I got to know her, I found out he was an employee and the business was dying. They couldn't pay him and told him he could have the business instead. He built it up from nothing. Their garage was bigger than most houses and was for his classic car collection of which he had many. These guys were self made and had dirty jobs, they had no desire to live in places like Park City because people were not so nice there.
I saw the same in LA. I went to church with people from the Pico neighborhood up through the Brentwood hills. The self-made super rich had all worked dirty jobs and did not have a snobby bone in their bodies. The surgeons and lawyers were status conscious and snottier. They were the people who would have been nicer to us if they had known our net worth.
My grandmother was old money rich and not snotty at all. Her money also did not show unless you knew all her very few clothes were bespoke. It is a culture of quality and understatement.
Really WELL DONE!
What about when Spirit has a direct flight and everyone else is a connecting flight? My other half flew Spirit recently for this reason and upgraded his ticket. He was sitting next to business people who flew them preferentially. We would do almost anything to avoid connections now.
I was a total CF until I started reading your newsletter. Now I am in recovery.
I had the same experience upgrading my neighborhood in the last place we lived. I bought a fixer in an all custom home neighborhood and neighbors were less snotty, not more. We had a low status address and lived in a neighborhood almost no one knew existed.
Great work! Just ordered the paperback copy and am looking forward to it!
can you elaborate a bit on this ( genuine curiosity - not being in the business and such)
"the traders at Merrill basically looted the company when Bank of America took over,"
I am wondering about that myself
I read your article, and I think you absolutely disregard the clearly abusive behavior of many large corporations. You are correct that most people have no issue with small business, and consider it a vital part of communities. Small and middle class business people are often rich, and they are supposed to be the back bone of the economy. But when you have CEOs of large corporations pumping up prices for things like healthcare, for essential products and services, when they are milking down the government for subsidies all while paying out dividends to shareholders and watching the national debt going up, when they are driving SMEs out of business so they can establish monopolies and completely control pricing, when banks and insurance companies literally decide about life and death of entire communities, then things are out of whack.
I read a post today from a person who said, relative to the Big, Beautiful, Bill, that “the government is stealing from the poor for tax breaks for the rich”. I find this logic to be totally backwards. The government is literally “stealing” from the rich (with a threat of massive fines or even jail time for non compliance) to give to the poor. To be clear, we can talk about how best to support those less fortunate, but let’s be honest about who’s paying who.
You make some goid points about entrepreneurs
But Taxes are for what?. Banks create money. Why tax?. Not that Corps pay much.
Rokkerfeller destroyed Medicine and ran everyone else out of the Oil Business.
Gates calls it Philanthropy but no one else would. Says he is donatiing to Science funds research and uses the Tech to create products. He says its a 1-10 or 20 return. What a guy plus his Vaccines are poison.
"I have sympathy. It’s a mental illness, more than anything. " while i am a generous tipper , and generous with family and friends , and miles away from being a billionaire , after a life time of saving /investing and not spending , i find it impossible to spend on my self . i never thought of it as a mental illness .
Dude, I don’t always agree 100% with what you say, but that’s one of the many reasons I love your Posts… the honesty in your writing is super refreshing, man! 🍻
I have to disagree with your statement that richer people make better neighbors. From my 60 years of living many places around the US and a few around the world, I’d say it’s random at best and from my experiences the worst neighbors were in multi-millionaire neighborhoods. I think less rich people pull together more in their neighborhoods and are generally friendlier. Now I’ve only lived in lower middle class working neighborhoods up to multi-millionaire neighborhoods so I can’t comment on living in a trailer park.
I agree that the rich are usually classier and more pleasant to be around, not to mention that you usually don’t need to worry about them stealing from you. OTOH it seems like they don’t have the honor that they used to have. Look at the United health CEO who was killed, people made a folk hero out of Mangione.
Depends on which rich as he pointed out with The Hamptons. In my last neighborhood we had one family who were super rich and I did not know until the husband was teaching a Sunday School lesson talking about visiting and overseas factory, so I googled him. His wife was the only one to volunteer when a truly dirty job needed to be done. After I got to know her, I found out he was an employee and the business was dying. They couldn't pay him and told him he could have the business instead. He built it up from nothing. Their garage was bigger than most houses and was for his classic car collection of which he had many. These guys were self made and had dirty jobs, they had no desire to live in places like Park City because people were not so nice there.
I saw the same in LA. I went to church with people from the Pico neighborhood up through the Brentwood hills. The self-made super rich had all worked dirty jobs and did not have a snobby bone in their bodies. The surgeons and lawyers were status conscious and snottier. They were the people who would have been nicer to us if they had known our net worth.
My grandmother was old money rich and not snotty at all. Her money also did not show unless you knew all her very few clothes were bespoke. It is a culture of quality and understatement.