The Rich Boy
by F. Scott Fitzgerald · first published 2003
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It's F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the quote is actually from another story of his, The Rich Boy. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/books/l-the-rich-are-diffe...
on “Operators of Coin.mx arrested by the FBI” ↗…it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Rich Boy"
on “Probably The World's Greatest Jeweller” ↗…billionaire and would only benefit from a more just society But you felt for the same mistake that Scott Fitzgerald made many years ago. "The rich are different from you and me” wrote in his novella, The Rich Boy, with a sense of romantic longing. Ernest Hemingway is said to have replied “Yes, they have more money.” Hemingway wrote later on, in a 1936 issue of Esquire magazine, “that was not humorous to Scott.…
on “Modeling a Wealth Tax” ↗