From Ben Franklin, a Gift That's Worth Two Fights (1990)

[Amorymeltzer]

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/21/us/from-ben-franklin-a-gift-that-s-worth-two-fights.html

[asd]

http://archive.today/WUpON

[DontchaKnowit]

They should invest it. Hilarious how rabid they are to spend it, in contrast with Franklin himself.

[Maursault → DontchaKnowit]

Norway has the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, worth $1T. The US doesn't have one. Franklin would approve of using it to seed one.

[Tao3300 → DontchaKnowit]

A penny saved is a penny saved is a penny saved is a penny saved is a penny saved is a...

Sooner or later you have to do something with the damned penny!

[euroderf → DontchaKnowit]

Franklin liked his beer. I say spend it on UBI (Universal Basic Inebriation).

[josh_fyi → DontchaKnowit]

Investing it means not using it. Plausibly, boosting economic progress by training people produces much greater long-term benefits than putting the money away.

[BarbaryCoast]

They pay-walled a news article from 1990. That's one way to ensure history never remembers us.