There are bank books from 30 different banks. It turned out he had the equivalent of about $1 million today in 30 different bank accounts and government bonds and real estate, and he owned whole blocks of northern Manhattan as part of his real estate holdings. That was the kind of thing you did when you were scarred so much by the famine.
和中国人是一样的,记得在哪本书里讲过一个纽约一个差不多是首富的一个寡妇那个花钱的抠门,连银行的工作人员都看不过去了。
现代社会发展到了今天,你的财富其实很多已经不属于你自己了,你现在节省下来的钱,确实就是替别人存的,但是从小贫困导致的恐惧症已经没有办法治愈了,只能和自己和解。
一个一辈子只是给人剃头的普通爱尔兰移民,死后留下了相当于现在的一百万
There are bank books from 30 different banks. It turned out he had the equivalent of about $1 million today in 30 different bank accounts and government bonds and real estate, and he owned whole blocks of northern Manhattan as part of his real estate holdings. That was the kind of thing you did when you were scarred so much by the famine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/us/irish-potato-famine-immigrants-cec/index.html
也许地主们可以估一下。
我老板就很节省。