Ben Franklin’s Gigantic Last Bet
The Stacking Benjamins Show
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The Bet That Frank Lloyd Wright Made When He Changed His Will
In 1788, when Franklin Roosevelt was 83 years old, he changed his will from a state plan to one that gave most of his money to his daughter and grandchildren. Why? He wanted it to be what he called a practical school, teaching skills in business,. such as accounting, bookkeeping and so forth. Instead, he found the college had become a gentrified university serving the blue bloods of philadelphia. I think he's also looking around at his fellow founders who are massively wealthy through marriage or have earned their keep in larger cities. And i don't want our government to be ruled by these guys, because fall out with them all the time.
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