“

If you had purchased $1,000 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49; the same investment with Enron would have left you with $16.50, Delta Airlines $49 and United Airlines nothing.

If, however, you had purchased $1,000-worth of beer a year ago, drunk the beer, and then turned in the cans for the aluminium recycling fund, you would now have $214.

”

—excerpted from a New Statesman column titled “Liquid Assets.” (via ncroal)

And here I am drinking out of bottles like an idiot…

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