Bozo Sapiens

Exploring how our cognitive, logical, and romantic failures are a fair price for our extraordinary success as a species.
Michael Kaplan writes about chance, fate, probability and error. He is the author of Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human. See full bio

Comments on "Pity the poor plutocrat"

Pity the poor plutocrat

You may have more in common with a billionaire than you think. Read More

you are right, last month i

you are right, last month i made big profits from my business, this made i made big profits but that are less than last month, and guess what, i am not happy with the results!!

Words of comfort

In that case, Farouk, you should take comfort from the words of John Jacob Astor, assuring a friend who had lost money in the Panic of 1837 that "a man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich." And a million then would be worth about 30 million now.

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