Apparently, one can have a false opinion these days. Abigail Shrier explains in this Tweet Thread.
For the fallout, consider Shrier's additional tweets on this thread, including the following:
Fun with Numbers! Have you seen what many financial institutions are paying on checking accounts these days? Consider the chart below, which is from my credit union (which I love, BTW). The basic rate is .05% interest. If you pony up and deposit more than $1,500 into a “Priority II Checking Account,” you can DOUBLE your interest rate to .1%.
Let’s assume you deposited $10,000 into that "Priority II" checking account on Jan 1, 2021. At the end of one year, on December 31, you will have earned TEN DOLLARS. Even worse, if inflation runs at 2% for the year, you will end up with $10,010 that only has the spending power of $9809.80. How long will it take to double your money in that checking account? Using the “Rule of 72s,” the answer is 720 years.
I've made a habit of publishing pages of quotes every few months at DI. As one of my many sources, I sometimes visit The Quotations Page. Here are some of my favorites from from QP over the past few weeks:
"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."
William James (1842 - 1910)
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."
Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), US Secretary of Defense
"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."
John J. Plomp
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian."
Lee Simonson
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)
"Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things."
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
If this video is legit, it is one of the finest moments of courtroom humor I've ever seen:
Here's a rather amazing thing I recently learned about myself from 23 & Me: "You inherited a small amount of DNA from your Neanderthal ancestors. Out of the 7,462 variants we tested, we found 257 variants in your DNA that trace back to the Neanderthals." 23 & Me further told me I have up to 2% of Neanderthal DNA in my genome.
I've also checked out many hundreds of my 4th-6th cousins. They have many hundreds of last names and, based upon the profile photos, they come in every size, shape and skin color. They reside in dozens of countries all over the world. I have numerous relatives born in Africa, Asia and Australia. Six of my relatives are Egyptian. 34 of my closest 5,000 relatives are at least 25% Ashkenazi Jews.
As I'm learning these things, I'm recalling the joyous presentation A.J. Jacobs made about his expansive family tree at this TED talk.
That a company can reliably tell me these things for $99 would have been unfathomable even a few decades ago--It wasn't until 2003 that scientists could read the complete genetic blueprint for building a human being (the Human Genome Project). These findings and this modest cost to learn these things are stunning. So stunning that, as I found ever more about my family tree tonight, I even chuckled a little Neanderthal chuckle.