As the story of The Great Gatsby tried to show, wealth can bring unlimited access to people, places and opportunities. But in the end it will not bring happiness. Only when we start out with the best intentions will we come out enjoying the fruits of our honest labors.
Sounds melodramatic, doesn't it? Well, for some grotesque reason, creating wealth seems to inspire the best and the worse in people. All the ups and downs of the stock market must have corresponding hundreds of stories of people whose lives were linked to the inexorable flow of wealth in and out of people's lives.
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