Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 11, 2019

We often forget that Frazz is actually a wealthy dude.

So who taught the kid (or possibly Mallett) such a prejudice?

“luck is when opportunity meets preparation”

@pscherer I think he observed it more than learned it. In any event the ones who aren’t obnoxious, even if there are more of them, are easy to miss because the others are so much more noticeable

I guess I’ll never be obnoxious.

You got me there, Jef…

Frazz’s last statement is so, so true. My wife and I were thinking back and realizing we had (and are still having) a good life all things considered. And our first thought was, we worked hard and sacrificed a lot to get here. Upon further reflection we had to admit we just got lucky. One, we weren’t born in Somalia, second we were raised in good families, third, our parents could afford to send us to college, and so on and so forth… A lot of people work harder than we do and know nothing but hardship.

In my experience, the wealthy neither borrow nor lend…

I see more hard work than luck.

Love this one! …. I do hope Jef will circle back and review Frazz’s “fortunate situation” sometime soon. It’s an interesting backstory that many readers don’t know, and most of the rest of us would love s reminder.

A push mower on a stinking hot day – that is not what I would call luck.

Barring lotteries, other gambling, and inheritance, there is almost no one who gets rich primarily because of luck. It’s hard work and innovation that creates wealth when it happens.

“Luck” and other things. Long ago I heard an interview on the electrical radio machine with a dude who was scornful of public assistance, pointing to his own success as the owner of a large and very prosperous automobile dealership, which was entirely his own doing. The interviewer was unkind enough to point out that actually he inherited the dealership as a going concern from his father and, while he had made a very good thing of it, crucial to his success were cut-rate loans courtesy of the “G.I. Bill of RIghts”.

Elizabeth Warren could probably add several more layers to that—he didn’t build the roads that his customers use to get there, he had nothing to do with the design and manufacture of the goods he sells, and so on.

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Hey, a heads-up for you: I’ll be judging sidewalk art and speaking at the Berkley (a suburb in the near NW of Detroit) Street Art Fest Saturday. If you haven’t been to Berkley, it’s a great town. If you haven’t met me in person, I’m pretty friendly. I’d say it’s worth a visit if you’ve got a chance.

The festival runs 11AM to 5PM. I’m scheduled to speak at 12:30, but I’ll be there until I have to do my judging duty at 3, and there may not be a whole lot of difference between me speaking and me talking, if you catch my drift. I’m pretty informal.

I’ll be set up in front of Toadvine Books (bonus points if you know where the bookstore’s name comes from) at 2783 Coolidge Hwy, just north of Catalpa (11 1/2 Mile Rd)

Hope to see you there!

Oh, you don’t have to be rich to be obnoxious. Though I admit, being obnoxiously rich doesn’t carry quite as much penalty as being obnoxiously otherwise.

And there seem to be quite a lot of those people these days.

thank you Jef.