Preach it, brother!

[thewayne]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. --John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey

I tried reading The Fountainhead once as I could find it as a free ebook. Rand was just a horrible author, it was unreadable for me. I've read reviews of her political philosophy by professional political scientists and philosophers, and they say it's unbelievably puerile and poorly conceived. Yet it is the gospel for the Teabaggers.

I have a file of phrases on my iPhone in the Notes app, this one has been there for a few years now.

Comments

[silveradept]

Well, it's true. Once you get past a certain income threshold, you start having enough excess money that you can then take advantage of things like investments, tax breaks, and loopholes. Once you can do that, and hire someone to manage it all, the money basically makes itself without your intervention. It's only if you have to spend everything you make that you can't get the money to work for you.