Added to "I hope I am right" post

[usonian]

9. I (try to) never wish anyone ill.

But he can never be happy. There is never enough. David Loy writes extensively that what we call wealth is only symbolic. Money is a symbol. The will always be someone with more, so it brings anguish instead of happiness. Same for fame and so on.

One of his books is "Money, sex, war and karma". Slightly misleading but the point is made.

Quote from Kurt Vonnegut:

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.

Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have – ENOUGH.”

He is what Buddhists call a "hungry ghost".

Worst of all for him, he is entangled with his worst enemy, the world's richest man.

The game is afoot.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19763903

At what cost?

If Iran is backing off its threats, count on them to be lying. A fool is easily deceived by flattery.