It's a thought to keep in mind the next time you whimper when your favorite stock, if you're among the millions lucky enough to own it, dips a point or two. But, on the other hand, one must admit that hopes and desires are much more often disappointed, minds are more anxious and on edge, and trouble is felt more keenly.' 'In democratic times enjoyments are more lively than in times of aristocracy,' Tocqueville wrote, 'and more especially, immeasurably greater numbers taste them. Prosperity - 1 A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadil. But just as many Americans are just whining. There remain far too many poor people in this country, Americans who can legitimately claim not to get their fair share of the American abundance.

Hence the more equal men are, the more insatiable will be their longing for equality.' When everything is more or less level, the slightest variation is noticed. Graff Diamonds has spent 16.5 million on the 476-carat Meya Prosperity diamond, the second high-profile Sierra Leone rough stone that the luxury jeweler. 'When inequality is the general rule in society,' he wrote, 'the greatest inequalities attract no attention. The closer we come to having what more fortunate people have, the more of it we want. Tocqueville, however, thought American restlessness was a function of democracy itself.

People who wanted more-more money, more land, more liberty-than they could have in Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, Poland, all the places our early ancestors fled. As you know, I am a huge fan of Alexis Halls Prosperity series, which is a steampunk historical romance horror thing with amazing characters and a fantastic. Who settled this country anyway? Restless people. Maybe the roots of our restlessness are genetic.

Prosperity by Alexis Hall