andrew j

On Being Rich

Thank you, Mr. Salmon. Sometimes people need to be beat upside the head with perspective, and i hope this does it.

OracleofOmaha, i have no sympathy for you. You have money -- plenty of it -- you're just spending it wrong. "extremely high housing costs" -- maybe you should ask yourself what is necessary, not what is frivolous. Your "few, if any, tangible economic benefits from the federal government" are probably discounting the single largest benefit you got: The good fortune of being born in the U.S.A. Your "tangible economic benefits" are so invisible you can't see them -- kind of like a fish not knowing what "water" is. I assure you, a child born in any nation in Africa would be happy to pay your taxes for a similar shot. Suck it up.

"The essence of civilization consists not of the multiplication of wants, but in their deliberate and voluntary renunciation." -- Gandhi.

Get civilized!