For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

I should have drunk more Champagne.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.