Saturday, August 22, 2020

Expectations

Expectations are at the root of unhappiness
Zen Buddhists have it right
My mother's commonplace book of sayings
contained a prayer
attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr
"God grant me
the strength to change 
what needs to be changed
the serenity to accept 
what cannot be changed and
the wisdom to know the difference" 
even the economists understand.
with their demand and supply curves,
that it's better to reduce demand!
For Keynes, expectations were...
too "exuberant" 

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