
On dignity
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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Don't Act Like Leona Helmsley
"What the modern economy means is that more and more people got to act like kings," he says. When we offer dignity to some one else, what do we get in return? Does it matter if the dignity we offer is going to some one who doesn't appreciate it? Or perhaps our acceptance of our common humanity, it's boundary we're delighted to behold, regardless of whether or not gratitude is expressed?" "I want to coll with a woman who was in a wheel chair but the university regularly said to her, sorry, you can't go into this building or that building, because we can't be bothered to build a ramp because it will cost too much", writes David Frum
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