frjosh on Nostr: My dad's version of this was always "Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law." Brutally ...

My dad's version of this was always "Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law."

Brutally pragmatic, not representing the way things should be, but how they ultimately are.

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My dad always told me that the Golden Rule was “He who has the gold gets to make the rules.”

I was an adult before I discovered that his quip was not in fact the golden rule, but instead “treat others as you’d like them to treat you.”

While I think that the latter is a better motto to live by, the economy we live in today is run based on my dad’s version.