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TimesLostArc, Like your note, but disagree in key parts.

Share your attraction to the Invictus remedy, but not your diagnosis- “Wealth wasn't the cause of this type of cowardice, human weakness was.”

Attraction to wealth(/power) IS that VERY same human weakness that is destroying our best institutions and our nation.

Appetite for wealth and the will to more power is the Achilles heel of our valuing laissez-faire capitalism as a the proper end of human aspirations.

(Is your favorite child the one with the largest bank account?)

Ironically, in a different sense, if we can’t let it go, the will to power may well be the ‘end’ of human aspiration.

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