About parasites and other vermin

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

I came upon two articles one after the other about start-up companies in San Francisco which I discussed here. These start-ups create enormous wealth for those who build them, but they also create enormous resentment amongst those who envy others for their success. I have therefore written a post that may be found at Quadrant Online that deals with the resentment such success has created. This was the flyer distributed in the neighbourhood of one of the truly successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs that started me thinking about these things [very bad language alert!]:

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The entire article can be found here under the title, The Enemies of those who Create.

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