A quotation from Bertrand Russell
The man who has double my salary is doubtless tortured by the thought that someone else in turn has twice as much as he has, and so it goes on. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon. But Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. You cannot, therefore, get away from envy by means of success alone, for there will always be in history or legend some person even more successful than you are. You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 6 “Envy” (1930)
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Nach 155 Jahren verlieren die Bismarcks die Herrschaft über den Sachsenwald. Die gräfliche Steueroase wird endlich trockengelegt! Aufgedeckt hatten wir sie mit dem @zdfmagazin. Erst flohen die Unternehmen aus Bismarcks Hütte im Wald, jetzt hat das Innenministerium in Schleswig-Holstein ausgearbeitet, wie das Gebiet 2026 eingemeindet werden soll. Und das heißt: Ein Ende der Steuervorteile und Geld für Schulen statt für den Grafen!
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These are people, I'm convinced, who have a primal and fundamental need to reduce everything to numbers. But you can't put a number, not exactly, on physical health. You can't tie a budget to helping with folks who need accommodations for neurodivergence. You can't explain in flat digits exactly how important it is for citizens to be getting their mail on time, let alone at all. You can't treat it, in other words, like a business, because the return isn't measured in dollars!
I don't know if it just enrages a certain type of person that the world is a bit more complex than they thought, or if there were a few of them that really did think they were doing good by taking a pipe wrench to the backbone of the nation, but either way, for every dollar taken out of these programs, it feels like at least $10 is lost overall. So much for 'waste'.
And Canada's doing the same, with Carney in charge...
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Belgium refers complaints against Israeli soldiers over Gaza war crimes to the ICC
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