Jonathan P. Baird

After hearing Donald Trump’s comments regarding Megyn Kelly, the Fox news anchor, after the first Republican debate, I am reminded of this quote which struck me as particularly apropos:

“I am ugly but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effects of ugliness – its deterrent power – is nullified by money…I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honored, and hence its possessor…I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself…Does not all my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?” Karl Marx