Good time of day, humans!
Transcript:
Monkey: — I got myself a self-help book.
Monkey: — It says that if I get off the tree and start walking upright, I could become a human in just seven million years.
Rat: — Does the book warn you about taxes, pedophiles, and paying taxes to the pedophiles, though?
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But who will build muh zoos - so I can hurtle doodoo at the hoomans?
Years ago I read that the first self-help book, which started what is probably the greatest editorial industry success going by the ratio profits/cost of production, was a 1840-ish book conveniently called "Self-Help."
It was written by an Episcopalian Minister, who argued that poor people were poor because they spent all their money stupidly in booze, entertainment and scams of all sorts, and instead of doing that they should save money and give it to his church and then the poor would stop being poor.
I thought: My goodness, this cannot be true because in scam-free world, there would not be a publishing industry at all!