Sometimes Money Can Destroy You Faster Than Poverty

Sometimes Money Can Destroy You Faster Than Poverty

Subscribe nowShareGive a gift subscriptionLike most Americans, I read The Great Gatsby in high school and, as a restless kid growing up in foster care, it deeply resonated with me. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic captured the promise at the heart of the American dream: That your origins don’t have to define your future, that no matter who you are or where you started, you can make something of yourself. I understood Jay Gatsby’s desire for se…