Here’s an observation which I think is even more apropos today than it was in White’s time: “Even intelligence is an accident of Nature, and to say that an intelligent man deserves his rewards in life is to say that he alone is entitled to be lucky. Maybe he is, but I sometimes wonder.”

SO relevant today! I mean, even if rich clever people were RIGHT that it was all down to their brains and not their financial advantages... :side-eyes Silicon Valley: