I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
Will Cuppy
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
Will Cuppy
Here’s one I think you’ll appreciate, it’s by one of the Dukes of York, from around early 19th century. He campaigned against the development of the railways because: “railways would encourage the poor to travel around needlessly.”
Christopher Chantrill Personal Website
That was an amusing link. Well, a duke is a species of oligarch. They always seem to know better than us us what we should and shouldn’t be doing.