Rich as Croesus, Cheap as Crassus
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Rich as Croesus, Cheap as Crassus
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In the first century BC, the richest man in Rome creates a fire brigade — not to save buildings, but to buy them while they burn. If the owner refuses to sell, the firefighters watch it turn to ashes. In fourteenth-century Avignon, the richest pope in history officially condemns poverty as heresy — while filling his treasury with gold. In eighteenth-century England, three men inspire the character of Ebenezer Scrooge: one eats rotten meat, another starves his sister to death, and the third kills his wife by refusing to feed her. And in 1973, the richest man in the world refuses to pay ransom for his kidnapped grandson — until the kidnappers mail him the boy's ear. Even then, he negotiates a discount and charges his own son interest. Four stories, twenty centuries, and one truth: money does not fill the emptiness — it deepens it. Easy English for intermediate learners — with vocabulary tips and a false friend of the week.