let us be calm and wise

It's fairly fascinating both for the data bits (I kind of love the logical way wealth scores work) and for the biographical bits. Let's face it: Rich people are interesting. They get all sorts of opportunities to have great careers, meet fascinating people and have really cool hobbies. (The horse racing people are still some of my favorites, because it meant I got to read about horses. Which, of course, turned into reading Jane Smiley...) But really all the old money families are fascinating. I got to generate a family tree for the original plantation families in Hawai'i a while back.