“swiped from their fortune”… If my 401(k) fell in half overnight, the media wouldn’t say it was swiped from me, they would say my retirement saving has “sagged” or somesuch.
For us old-timers, it reminds me of this scene in the Carl Sagan movie Contact where the ultra-rich SR Hadden played brilliantly hy John Hurt is talking to Jodie Foster’s character, Dr. Arroway.
“swiped from their fortune”… If my 401(k) fell in half overnight, the media wouldn’t say it was swiped from me, they would say my retirement saving has “sagged” or somesuch.
For us old-timers, it reminds me of this scene in the Carl Sagan movie Contact where the ultra-rich SR Hadden played brilliantly hy John Hurt is talking to Jodie Foster’s character, Dr. Arroway.
a final gesture of good will to the people of this little planet that have given… sputters … from whom I have taken so much.