28th
January
2006
Things I learned from the rich
I began work at a high-paying corporate job. There, I get to meet the kind of people who are attracted to high-paying corporate jobs. Today, one of them taught me several facts about the world. It was remarkable to learn so much from one young man.
- It’s harder for a rich person to lose a bit of comfort than for a poor person to remain totally uncomfortable. “What you don’t know you don’t miss.”
- Converting to a single-payer health insurance plan in the United States would be a logistical nightmare — a bigger one, apparently, than creating Medical Savings Accounts, which we happen to have as a pre-tax perk at this job. (Not to mention that it would be a bigger ordeal than building the biggest, fastest highway system in the world — but don’t get me started on the Futurist miracle of the Interstates.)
- Increased abortion of females in China and India will make the countries more warlike, as societies led by males are more warlike.
And from another, older man: the economy is doing great.
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