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  'It's Money that Matters'

  In the middle 70s I   had a football 'scholarship'for four years at a very competitive college,  a place where nearly everyone came from fantastically wealthy families who had just missed successfully buying their kids admission to an Ivy, and sent them there as a consolation prize.

  Believe it or not, some students already had nostalgia for the activist 60s, and would airily say from time to time, between puffs, "Money doesn't matter."  The few of us who actually knew whether money mattered or not would say to each other (when we were alone): "Money doesn't matter unless you don't have it."

  Ms. Chin's piece reminded me of that idea rather well.  She reminded me of the time when I finally got a date one summer evening, but my dad's car wouldn't start, and we lived in the rural south, where no bus lines operate, so I had to call and cancel, but it didn't occur to me that day that we were still much wealthier than the vast majority of our fellow earthlings.  I felt really poor.

  Thanks for the view point.  'Tis a complex issue.
  Still, something does have to change, here in the USA.On Wealthy strive for posted 3 years, 7 months ago 18 Responses