The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason · 1926
Parables set in ancient Babylon teaching foundational personal finance: pay yourself first, live below your means, make your money work for you. Nearly a century old and perfectly relevant because human nature hasn't changed. These are the pre-investing fundamentals — the stuff you need to master before you open a brokerage account.
The case against
Clason wrote one good pamphlet and stretched it. The faux-King-James dialect (thee, thou, thine to keep) turns simple advice into costume drama, and the advice is simple: save a tenth, avoid debt, ask experts. Worth an hour. The chapters keep teaching it anyway, parable after parable, and one of them cheerfully locates its hero's redemption in slavery.
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