The world got rich by inventing cheap steel, electric lights, marine insurance, reinforced concrete, coffee shops, saw mills, newspapers, automatic looms, cheap paper, modern universities, the transistor, cheap porcelain, corporations, rolling mills, liberation for women, railways.

FORBES: Yes, Gawker, 'The Good Rich' Do Exist

When at last, long after nightfall, the glittering bright lights went up on the stage, the presentation commenced, and a parade of high-ranking Fleet Marine Force officers big shots from Hawaii embarked on their speeches, we began to realize a cold fact: they had nothing new to tell us.

NEWYORKER: Rat Beach