"It’s never easy being rich: endless tax avoidance, the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff, the never-ending burden of surly stares from the Great Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one’s rightful business. Toughest of all is simply keeping track of everything one owns. There’s so much of it. And personal possessions are just the beginning.
"You must keep a gimlet eye, too, on the myriad people and institutions that safeguard your gilded status: politicians, newspapers, financial instruments, branches of government. They all belong to you. But staying on top of what they’re up to is a full time job. What’s an overstretched gazillionaire to do?"
I second Ben. I couldn't keep up--but that may have been the point.
Does anyone remember the name of the speed-reading book woman of the '60s? I was in high school at the time and got into it,and got really good at speed reading. Of course it was the printed word and not on-screen flashes, so easier to follow.
Fnarf will know the answer.
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"It’s never easy being rich: endless tax avoidance, the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff, the never-ending burden of surly stares from the Great Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one’s rightful business. Toughest of all is simply keeping track of everything one owns. There’s so much of it. And personal possessions are just the beginning.
"You must keep a gimlet eye, too, on the myriad people and institutions that safeguard your gilded status: politicians, newspapers, financial instruments, branches of government. They all belong to you. But staying on top of what they’re up to is a full time job. What’s an overstretched gazillionaire to do?"
Does anyone remember the name of the speed-reading book woman of the '60s? I was in high school at the time and got into it,and got really good at speed reading. Of course it was the printed word and not on-screen flashes, so easier to follow.
Fnarf will know the answer.