{"id":189793,"date":"2026-06-13T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=189793"},"modified":"2026-06-13T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:57:17","slug":"todays-quote-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grimbeorn.blogspot.com\/2026\/06\/proper-hate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Grim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The good argument in favor of billionaires &#8212; trillionaires, now &#8212; is that one person can make a decision about how to deploy substantial capital in efficient ways that a government, a corporation, or a committee can never. Musk is building space rockets and tunneling equipment that could build a Mars colony because he wants to, not because of fiduciary duty or because spreadsheets suggest it is wise. We are lucky that the world&#8217;s richest man loves Buck Rogers rather than Karl Marx.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grim: The good argument in favor of billionaires &#8212; trillionaires, now &#8212; is that one person can make a decision about how to deploy substantial capital in efficient ways that a government, a corporation, or a committee can never. Musk is building space rockets and tunneling equipment that could build a Mars colony because he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-46\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Nnb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189794,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189793\/revisions\/189794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}