Context Is Everywhere #5

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The Cost of Saving Lives

Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital stands at the corner of 165th Street and Broadway in Manhattan; a massive campus that spans three square blocks and treats hundreds of children from all over the world. People think you need a bunch of money to build a children's hospital, but is that really all there is to it?

I spoke to Mr. Morgan Stanley– donor of the hospital– to get my questions answered.

It turns out that, yes, the Morgan Stanley family is indeed quite wealthy. To my surprise, however, they remained wealthy even after building this state of the art children's hospital that bears their name. How did they do it? Well, they didn't give all their money to the hospital. It appears that they kept quite a bit of it. Contrary to what you might imagine, their lifestyle remained fairly similar to how it was before having built a hospital. Could they have built an even better hospital with more money? Sure. However, as Mr. Stanley explained to me, there's a lot I don't understand about finances, or philanthropy for that matter.

After our conversation he brought me down to a large cavern in one of his home's several basements and uncorked an old bottle of wine he purchased with some of the money he kept. I took a sip and was suddenly transported to a field of dandelions on an early evening in the summer, just as the spring chill becomes uncomfortably warm. I heard a horse clip-clop a fair distance away, and the heavy wooden wheels of a carriage flatten rocks on the road beneath it. I smelled an old barn and cracked soil and in that moment I understood why not every child can get the care they need if Mr. Morgan Stanley is to remain happy.

📺 RIP latenight television. The savvy celebs go where the biggest audiences are, and this week felt like a watershed moment for new media. Mr. Beast (YouTube star) went on Rogan's show, Tony Robbins went on Logan Paul's show, and Trump went on the Nelk Boys' show. Who you got Jimmy Fallon? Here's the Tony Robbins interview, which I watched while asking myself the question: What does this expert self-promoter know about how to reach millions of people in the cheapest way possible that others don't?

Jon Stewart's podcast is GOOD. And I'm still not bored of the Gamestop/Robinhood drama of last year. So this ep got me. On it, Jon Stewart calls up a writer who had some harsh words for him on Boolmberg.com and they actually have a healthy debate about what we should be learning from the scandal. That's right. A healthy debate.

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