I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

Investors should be skeptical of anyone who claims to have a surefire way to beat the market.

农业的韧性意味着为未知做好准备，同时优化已知的部分。