When one sees the finished product, in this case, attractive villages, nice homes, and wealth beyond imagination, it's easy for folks to think that it was a simple, easy task to get there, with guaranteed success, and anyone could have done it. Folks who think like this look past the risks involved in land development, and the hard work, and imagination that went into it from the beginning, before money was rolling in, and before success was "guaranteed".
Last winter my golfing group took a trip up to Juliette Falls. I don't know all of the specifics, but there are lots of empty lots up there. In fact we were told that the clubhouse was once a big home that wound up in foreclosure and the golf course management bought it up.
As we drove around the place I thought about how this could have happened to the Morses, but it didn't. Their plan was better, or their execution was better, or something, but, to me it illustrated that their success was not always "guaranteed"...they pulled it off, and not everyone can do that.
Looking at the end product of success and wealth, it's easy for some to feel jealous of someone else's success.
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