{"id":230,"date":"2004-12-09T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T01:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2004-12-09T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T01:26:21","slug":"what-i-like-about-scrooge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/what-i-like-about-scrooge\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Like about Scrooge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2110817\/\">neat article<\/a> on Slate, contributed by the one and only <a href=\"http:\/\/womanofthelaw.blogspot.com\/\">Womanofthelaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In this whole world, there is nobody more generous than the miser\u2014the man who could deplete the world&#8217;s resources but chooses not to. The only difference between miserliness and philanthropy is that the philanthropist serves a favored few while the miser spreads his largess far and wide.<\/p>\n<p>If you build a house and refuse to buy a house, the rest of the world is one house richer. If you earn a dollar and refuse to spend a dollar, the rest of the world is one dollar richer\u2014because you produced a dollar&#8217;s worth of goods and didn&#8217;t consume them.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty neat article on Slate, contributed by the one and only Womanofthelaw. In this whole world, there is nobody more generous than the miser\u2014the man who could deplete the world&#8217;s resources but chooses not to. The only difference between miserliness and philanthropy is that the philanthropist serves a favored few while the miser spreads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-3I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}