Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for July 19, 2021

Definitely worth it. He didn’t say, “Give up your fortune and live in penury.” Go make a new fortune.

You should have asked him a more challenging one, like “if you could end poverty if you could and suffer no consequence whatsoever, would you?”

But wouldn’t giving up his fortune place him in poverty? So giving up his fortune wouldn’t end poverty in America therefore…..

Let me answer this hypothetically as if I really were that wealthy. No.

If he would dare to set foot in a church, when the plate came to him, he’d throw in a ten and rummage for change.

He should ask the question if I gave up my fortune to end poverty, how many would be in poverty in 6 months?

you could start ending poverty by getting a job

I’m surprised he’d even go for half.

“Tell you what: I’ll increase my ‘Trickle-Down’ by a factor of ten.”

“Ten times more pee isn’t going to make it better…”

If you give a fortune to people who have no experience with money, most of them will spend it all in a few years instead of investing for income in perpetuity.

His answer was clear…..

Personally, I’d prefer the attainable reality where we pull out all the socio-economic props from a system that allows anyone to accumulate more than $1 million in assets. No single individual would need sacrifice.