Price of Life

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

The Economist has a “Big Mac Index ” which “was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their “correct” level… Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible.” Silly puns.

About the author

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”), an argument in favor of peaceful disobedience against an unjust state.