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  • Sep 27, 2026, 3:50 AM

    @AaronDavid @dyckron One of my favourite quotes.

    #Alt4You:

    JOHN BOGLE, the Vanguard founder who passed away in 2019, once told a story about money that highlights something we don't think about enough:

    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”

    Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word-stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn't have been more accurate.

    For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.

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