“There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.” - Ray Kroc
Chasing Chop Suey: Tracing Chinese Immigration Through Food: Today, chop suey is nebulous in meaning. Unless you are over the age of fifty, you probably have never heard of it. Or your closest reference might be from musical artists ranging from Louis Armstrong to the Ramones to System of a Down, who have all included “Chop Suey” in their song titles, none with any clear connection to the dish. (System of a Down’s bassist admitted that the band wanted to call their song “Suicide,” but to avoid controversy used chop suey because “it was suicide cut in half.”)... Chinese restaurant owners tapped into this burgeoning American consumerism. “They eventually realized that they could make their food more appealing to Americans, if they performed a little plastic surgery, if they made it sweeter,” says Mendelson. “They fashioned this new cuisine, which gave real pleasure to millions of Americans, and it was a lifeline.”
https://sundaylongread.com/2023/11/17/chasing-chop-suey-tracing-chinese-immigration-through-food/
Should Kids Really Learn About Getting Rich: A recent survey reported in Forbes noted that Gen Z respondents consider the threshold of “financial success” to be an average annual salary of $587k and a net worth of $9.47 million. After mopping up the seltzer I spat out after reading those figures, I considered why that might be, and the obvious reason is that influencers and YouTubers gain followers by flaunting their wealth, and children make up a credulous audience... Under these circumstances, the most important financial-literacy skill might actually be media literacy — discerning real advice from the fantasy.
https://www.thecut.com/article/brooding-teaching-children-about-finance-wealth.html
The Psychological Disorders of Billionaires: Regardless of whether they are ‘self made’ or ‘second gen’, the ultra-rich have unique psychological profiles amongst the general populace. In my experience, both categories of billionaire are dominated by interminable existential crises — although each displays nuance when it comes to confrontation. The ‘self made’ have a tendency towards aggressive megalomania, while ‘second gens’ demur in favour of nihilistic hedonism.
https://www.macguffinmagazine.com/stories/macguffin-plutocrat-archipelagos
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This week, I visited Chikkmagaluru, the Coffee Capital of India... Staying at a local plantation with Bharat, the founder of Bili Hu Coffee... we unpacked everything around the rising coffee culture in India... How is Indian coffee different from that in other parts of the world? Where are people innovating in coffee and making money off of the rising interest in specialty coffees? How he started this business with less than Rs 10 lakhs in capital, and there’s still so much space for more players to enter. Check out this episode of Founder’s Office with Sarthak Ahuja... Directed and Produced by Aditi Randev.
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