I think a lot of how much you give depends on how close you are to these nieces and nephews. If not close--if you don't see them or stay in touch, I'd give a lower amount. I gave $50 to my kids' friends on high school graduation. But for close kids or family, I'd give $100.
â[The Rules Do Not Apply] is a short, sharp American memoir in the Mary Karr tradition of life-chronicling. Which is to say that Levy, like Karr, is a natural writer who is also as unsparing and bleakly hilarious as itâs possible to be about oneself. . . .
Yes, indeed, even the effects of an improved management of rules has to be measured, and that is far from trivial. I try to imagine a world without rules: I enter a bank to apply for a new loan; I have a good chat with the bank employee; he looks deep into my eyes, and my loan application is approved.. In this world without rules I probably have another profession. And I wonder if this world would be a fair world, respecting equality of rights. Would this world end like the 'state of nature' described by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes: '...a state without civil government, ... in a war of all against all in which life is hardly worth living'?