Tag: stability
A Prayer
Dear God, I don’t ask to become a model for the ages. I don’t hope any more to do anything that will be admired and rewarded; I’m at a point where I just enjoy doing some things because I like doing them. Such as my singing: I’ve never had good pitch. When I try to…
The Price is Weird
Part IV Offhand I can think of several sources for the unease that has dogged my life and made me yearn for a simpler, more stable order: psychological, religious / spiritual, social. Price disorientation. The music kids play nowadays. Historical. In Part III I listed a few changes which seemed significant—at least noticeable—in my generation. Before…
The Price is Weird
Part II In his 2013 book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” author Thomas Piketty observes a curious phenomenon about prices: Throughout the 1800’s, novels reported the incomes of their main characters—servants and peasants, not so much—as a way of benchmarking their social positions. Incomes also revealed something of family history for the gentry, because people…