D The Common Good Josh and Traveler Done 1.8

Traveler and Josh were walking on the beach at Hanalei when Sugar Sister pulled into the bay.

Is that as big as it looks, asked Traveler?

100 meters, helicopter pad, Chihuly chandelier, Jay Cooke's boat, spends maybe 3 days a year on it, but he will show up tomorrow to tour Nā Pali, answered Josh.

Jay Cooke? Like the robber baron, asked Traveler?

Second gilded age, recycled robber baron. He posted some on 16chan and that's when I tagged him for my AI to follow, "Who needs the Bible when we have Ayn Rand's writings?"

Win at any cost, that has done the world a lot of good, replied Traveler, but I would like to ask you a bit about that line of thought. I agree that the preponderance of data shows that we are in the second gilded age, and while nobody can tell the future or time the market, probably approaching a reset point.

The reset point, Josh said gently.

Point taken, the reset point. And I understand why Blue Circle has always  made a conscious point of surrounding themselves with Circle companies. And while it doesn't work perfectly, it works more than it fails.

But why don't we do something about the general population, what's happened to the idea of the common good, it seemed to work well in the 1940s and 50s.

Traveler, I could give you a number of answers, but the biggest one is pragmatism, save the ones you can. You will soon be stepping up to the big seat and that should be your mantra, save the ones you can.

Look everyone associates you with HNMNBie, but you are not. Jay Cooke made his money off Flat Earthers, but he isn't one and he sure isn't a Robust, he is the robo deli king. From the beginning of the gilded age, he and his, made more money than they could possibly spend, most of it with leverage. They got control of politics and passed laws to enrich themselves and doom their grandchildren to debt driven poverty. For a boat he doesn't spend a week a year on.

Everybody knows the first part of the quote from Timothy, "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." But they don't always get the next two points: "Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."

You think Cooke is happy? On this 3rd wife? Couldn't run his own boat if his life depended on it. You know, Josh said conspiratorially, he is allergic to wine. No kidding, he has one of the most storied cellars in the world, but even one sip and blood blisters start to form on his lip. But you, young man, you have about what he has in terms of wealth and they say you don't know how much you have. Is that true?

I have a rough idea, but I have never been able to shake the story of David counting the size of his army, replied Traveler, just a bit sheepishly.

Josh shook his head. If that's what God has put on your heart, keep on truckin, it clearly is working out well for you. I try to be a good NeoPuritan and keep all the commandments, but I get an email from my AI everyday with my financial status and 3 year over year comparisons. It has helped me head off issues while they were still small a number of times. Tell you what, I'm hungry, what say we belly up to CyBurger, I hear their artificial patties are as good as it gets.