“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.”

-Source unknown. (Commonly misattributed on the internet to Lester B. Pearson, but there is zero evidence he said it.)

Edit: fixed quote source attribution.

@aburtch Carney said he was a "Pearson Liberal". But in fact he is that guy on the cover of Fortune.
@aburtch Nice quote but I’m pretty sure a Canadian prime minister who died in 1972 didn’t say that :)
@aral I dug deeper on this and I think you are right. It is highly unlikely he said it and there doesn’t appear to be any evidence he did. Despite it being widely attributed to him on the internet. But we know the internet isn’t always right…

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Smaug

We cal them Smaug

And we should treat them the same