Work Hard Or Speculate?

in cartoon •  6 years ago 

Image from page 38 of "The up-to-date primer : a first book of lessons for little political economists ; in words of one syllable with pictures" (1896)

This is a 1896 cartoon that still sums up the relationship between working and speculating on Steemit today.

Most of us probably like to think of ourselves as the worthy bull of Labour rather than the snappy little dog of Speculation, but some people do have self-insight :)

I don't really know what it was trying to say then and I suppose I don't really know what I'm trying to say now...

And of course when I tried to post this yesterday, it failed the HF20 RC test! But now the patch seems to have gone through so fingers crossed!

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Haha, lovely! You made me smile. :)

Wait, can I actually comment?

Whoa, it's back? I'll have to reschedule today after all.

yes, looks like it :) taking it cautiously because who knows what's actually going on at the moment, but good to be able to say something!