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Post – January 29, 2002

“Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.”
-John Stuart Mill

4 Comments

  1. Mad Bull

    I disagree. Personally, I don’t care how much others have, just that I have plenty 🙂

  2. Miguel

    Richer than other *rich* men.

  3. Mike Benedetto

    Mill was being a bit of a weenie with semantics here — “rich” is a relative term to begin with (money only has power when some people have it and others don’t), so his clarification is meaningless.

  4. bitchen

    “John Stuart Mill–of his own free will–after half a pint of shandy was particularlly ill…”
    -Monty Python

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