miserliness

Just last Wednesday, I posted a column reporting how our richest corporations, through sheer miserliness and profit-seeking, left millions of Americans vulnerable to technological attacks on their privacy and welfare.

In all the versions of the story, there is resistance, skepticism, fear, miserliness, scarcity or a suspicion that must first be conquered.

“It’s a kind of meanness and miserliness on the part of these prosperous countries that say, we don’t want these people,” he said.

It is thus the most faithful to a story that is not merely about the miserliness of one man, but, potentially, of all mankind.

But there’s a difference between prudence and miserliness.