The Forbes Magazine 90th anniversary issue highlights some excerpts from the September 15, 1917 issue. One titled “The Pursuit of Happiness” reveals what was old is new again. Or that things are the same only different:
Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions. Too many so-called “successful” men are making business an end and aim in itself…They are so obsessed with the material that they cannot enjoy the immaterial, the intangible, the ideal, the spiritual–quiet thought, self-communion, reflection, poise, inward happiness, domestic felicity…Mere getting is not living.
Interestingly another article lambasts millionaires who donate money to “perpetuate his name” while treating workers like dirt.
I like this socially conscious Forbes.
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