Wednesday Wisdom

Contrasting perspectives to prompt some pondering.

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Here are two thoughts from John Maynard Keyes about how things go in the long run.

"In the long run, we are all dead."
He said in 1923

"In the long run, almost anything is possible."
He said in 1942

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🌀 Why the change?

🌱 They are both true, and yet one is hopeful.

🌿 Why do you think he was more hopeful in the middle of a world war than at the height of prosperity in the 1920s?

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