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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Wendell Berry

But there is another form that life can take. We can learn about it from exceptional people of our own culture, and from other cultures less destructive than ours. I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children; whose work serves the earth he lives on and from and with, and is therefore pleasurable and meaningful and unending; whose rewards are not deferred until “retirement,” but arrive daily and seasonally out of the details of the life of his place; whose goal is the continuance of the life of the world, which for a while animates and contains him, and which he knows he can never encompass with his understanding or desire.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge, ch. 2 “The One-Inch Journey” (1971)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/77816/

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MediaFaro Longreads

The arms dealer, the general's daughter and the speed demon: An inheritance battle.

Akram Ojjeh built his fortune as a middleman for French arms sales to Saudi Arabia, until his death in 1991.

The legal battle that his third wife and his youngest son have waged against the rest of the family could have been just a run-of-the-mill inheritance dispute.

But its ramifications extend to matters of state.

mediafaro.org/article/20250706

Le Monde · The arms dealer, the general's daughter and the speed demon: An inheritance battle.By René Dosière
#France#ArmsSales#History
WIST Quotations

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar’s worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective — a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

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Thilo

🧬 Inheritance is where private accumulation meets public consequence.

What if IP and means of production were returned to the commons — not sold off, but passed on?

In my latest blog, I argue for a 100% inheritance tax on IP/assets as a humanist default, not a punitive exception.

🛠️ Value is co-created. Let it circulate.

Read more → eduzen.bearblog.dev/inheritanc

educationZEN🧬 Inheritance as a Political Act💬 This post is a follow-up to "". Inheritance is where private accumulation meets public consequence. In a post-growth, workshop-based society, a 100% i...
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