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It's pretty ironic to read about Twain losing his fortune to bad investments, after satirizing sketchy investments in "The Gilded Age."

• thinking_cactus 2mo ago
  It makes a little sense to me that would be the case. People tend to write things they find relevant for their own life or surrounding. That is, he might be putting into paper a kind of warning to himself.
  • fwipsy 2mo ago
    To me it indicates that he knew how easy it is to lose your shirt, likely from the examples of his peers -- and then he did anyways.
• bcjdjsndon 2mo ago
  But he sounded so clever with his quippy little lines... America loves appearances more than the reality
  • fwipsy 2mo ago
    Americans love making pithy generalized critiques of their own culture based on inconsequential anecdotes.