Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
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Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
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#2Mark Twain's financial struggles and goals were never framed or discussed in my American school education. Wonder what the children of our poorest families would aspire to given the truth of business? God forbid they try to emulate Mark Twain's path.
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#3Lovely article. Best piece imho:
>And Twain wasn’t born “around the year 1835,” but during it—a strategic decision of the utmost significance, suggesting an alert and eager business mind operating even in utero.
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#4„and for settlers trying to persuade Indians to abandon tribal lands that these newcomers wished to inhabit.„
Ah - they persuaded them. What a lovely euphemism.
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#5Nice introduction, but I admit I was a bit disappointed to not get even one "get-rich-quick scheme".
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#6Lovely article. Best piece imho: >And Twain wasn’t born “around the year 1835,” but during it—a strategic decision of the utmost significance, suggesting an alert and eager business mind operating even in utero.
The following line (in the next paragraph) is good too :
"Unfortunately, Twain was not so astute in his choice of parents."
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#7Am I the only one getting fake amazon popups on that page?
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#8Nice introduction, but I admit I was a bit disappointed to not get even one "get-rich-quick scheme".
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#9There seems to be an error: "The family’s annual food bill was $80 a month." For a person earning $1.50 per day, that would have been a whopping monthly food bill.
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#10Nice introduction, but I admit I was a bit disappointed to not get even one "get-rich-quick scheme".
Right. Clemens put large sums into a typesetting machine project, but it was a dud.[1] One of the prototype machines still exists.