>> The truth of the matter is that most of the rich inherited their wealth… and have NEVER known a day of deprivation that being truly poor means… Believe me, if you've hit bottom for real, you NEVER forget it.
That's the difference between the #GreedyAndInsensitive and the #MurmuringMalcontents, so eloquently captured by #Mercier two and a half centuries ago
⬆️ In 17th C. fiction, down-to-earth #SanchoPanza said to #DonQuixote, “Dos linajes solos hay en el mundo, decía una agüela mía, que son el tener y el no tener…” As a grandmother of mine used to say, there are only two families in the world, the #HavesAndTheHaveNots… ➡️ https://opinion.inquirer.net/15545/the-haves-and-have-nots
In 18th C., #LouisSebastienMercier described the same as:
"Hatred grows more bitter and the state is divided into two classes: the #GreedyAndInsensitive, and #MurmuringMalcontents"
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1960/the-three-estates-of-pre-revolutionary-france/
The down-to-earth Sancho Panza, in a conversation with the idealistic Don Quixote, once said, “Dos linajes solos hay en el mundo, decía una agüela mía, que son el tener y el no tener…” (As a grandmother of mine used to say, there are only two families in the world, the haves and the have-nots…)
Ramesh #NotGoingBack