http://lianza.org/blog/2003/08/23/franciscos-money-speech/ Personal Web Log of Tom Lianza Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://lianza.org/blog/2003/08/23/franciscos-money-speech/#comment-1178 Captain’s Log » Paul Graham on Wealth Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:51:44 +0000 http://lianza.org/blog/?p=108#comment-1178 [...] I enjoy almost every essay that Paul Graham writes, and his recent one on wealth was no exception. He sounds quite libertarian… the speech is reminiscent of Francisco D’Anconia’s money speech in Atlas Shrugged. A few highlights: People like baseball more than poetry, so baseball players make more than poets. To say that a certain kind of work is underpaid is thus identical with saying that people want the wrong things. With the rise of the middle class, wealth stopped being a zero-sum game. Jobs and Wozniak didn’t have to make us poor to make themselves rich. Quite the opposite: they created things that made our lives materially richer. They had to, or we wouldn’t have paid for them. [...] [...] I enjoy almost every essay that Paul Graham writes, and his recent one on wealth was no exception. He sounds quite libertarian… the speech is reminiscent of Francisco D’Anconia’s money speech in Atlas Shrugged. A few highlights: People like baseball more than poetry, so baseball players make more than poets. To say that a certain kind of work is underpaid is thus identical with saying that people want the wrong things. With the rise of the middle class, wealth stopped being a zero-sum game. Jobs and Wozniak didn’t have to make us poor to make themselves rich. Quite the opposite: they created things that made our lives materially richer. They had to, or we wouldn’t have paid for them. [...]

]]> http://lianza.org/blog/2003/08/23/franciscos-money-speech/#comment-201 Schulte Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://lianza.org/blog/?p=108#comment-201 That's great...so, hows abouts you puts the wedding pictures up. That’s great…so, hows abouts you puts the wedding pictures up.

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