Is money the root of all evil? No, but it doesn’t necessarily make you happy. I am thinking of the Vanderbilt family after touring the Biltmore Estate today.
The estate is still run by a scion of George Vanderbilt, who built it as a summer home away from his sprawling railroad, steamship, etc. empire. It is expensive to tour, but I think of it as a Disney World for single people. Half of it is open to the public at cost, and the other half, roughly, has a vineyard, livestock, and wildlife that need to be culled occasionally.
What prompted the comment in the first paragraph of this blog was the suicide of another Vanderbilt scion Anderson Cooper’s brother. Anderson Cooper seems like a smart and successful person, albeit homosexual (that’s his business; I have no trouble with gays as long they start in adulthood, keep their private lives private, and don’t molest children).