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I couldn’t resist naming this essay “Local Woman Discovers Leisure in European City,” as I recently learned all the cliches about life in Paris (and my reactions to them, as a former girl from the Kentucky suburbs) are deserved. Yes, the food tastes better, and somehow even a straight pastry-and-cheese diet didn’t make me feel […]

Listen, Rich People, something you should know about me is that my brain is owned and operated by a trio of opposing, hustling forces (the Three Grind Mice, if you will), constantly grappling with one another for control.  The first mouse is Curiosity, genuinely open-minded and steering me in the direction of truth, no matter […]

The other day, I saw this chart floating around Twitter: This was rage-bait, and baby, I was hooked, lined, and sunk.  It was accompanied by the claim that Jeff Bezos paid a 23% effective tax rate* on $4 billion in reported income between 2014 and 2018.  Having just forked over multiple six figures in taxes […]

“You can’t do anything with five [million dollars], Greg. Five’s a nightmare.”  Wow, two Succession quotes in one month? Someone cancel her Max subscription! Look, one day you’re waltzing through life downplaying Kim Kardashian’s private jet purchase (it’s a write-off!); the next you’re asking 180,000 people where we should draw the line on wealth accumulation. […]