Why the dorks seem to listen to financial advice

“It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year’s cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank — and the dorks all have it.”
— Jane Bryant Quinn

The financial commentator Jane Bryant Quinn made that observation during a recessionary time … the early Nineties, to be exact, in the book Making the Most of Your Money.

This was a work she would revise or update through the years, which makes sense, because practical advice about money never really goes out of style.

Sometimes, dorks come into style, too.

The undorkish photo of Quinn above, incidentally, comes from a column in 2019 when she announced she was finally taking her own advice and retiring, and was enjoying a moment in Rome.

That does sound rather nice.