What right has a "personal fortune" to be anything but working capital?

2 points by silexia 1mo ago ↗ HN

What right has a "personal fortune" to be anything but working capital? The time is here when the commanding law is, "to whom much is given, of him shall much be required."

Henry Ford

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[dead] SyntaxErrorist 1mo ago ↗

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bell-cot 1mo ago ↗

Henry Ford, for all his faults, seems to have wanted society to be high-functioning, with broad-based prosperity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

I'd say those ideals pretty well faded between 1960 and 1995.