''If I were a rich man . . . ''

In Reply to: A great business acumen does not translate to mental posted by HasBen on October 11, 2025 at 08:04:35

There's a line in the song from Fiddler On the Roof that's always resonated with me:

"It won't make a bit of difference if I answer right or wrong.
When you're rich they think you really know!"

For too many people, being rich makes someone an oracle.

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• Yes, a classic human flaw is to equate great wealth with HasBen 09:19:57 10/11/25 (4)
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    • yet theres that thing about a camel thru the eye of a needle. azbruin 13:50:48 10/11/25 (0)
    • That's actually a very short hop from a more prevalent and older blindness 12:39:47 10/11/25 (0)
  • It's a concept carefully worked into our upbringing blindness 09:51:52 10/11/25 (0)

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