Pondering the Blue Book Value of a Middle-Aged White Guy
They almost never go up in value after they leave the lot.
When I was a kid, my stepdad lost his job as a middle manager at Keuffel and Esser, a defunct company best known for making slide rules. As you may remember, slide rules were computers for dirt poor kids in the 1980s. I never really understood what the company did or what my stepdad’s job was there.
But suddenly, after playing the archetypal role of 20t…
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