A Gem, from Tyler McClellan
Hieronymus of Rhodes in the second book of his scattered notes relates that in order to show how easy it is to grow rich. Thales, foreseeing that it would be a good season for olives, rented all the oil mills and thus amassed a fortune.
Are we supposed to take Bruno's word that no one ever made money speculating in commodities against the real life experience of one of the seven sages?
Kim Zussman writes:
Investment and speculation are the same thing only differing in degree.