I read a moderate amount; back when he was on the syllabus; admittedly some time ago, as we didn’t really get along all that well.
As for the ‘to which he feels entitled’ bit specifically; I do stand by that one. The aspect of his work that I most liked were the bits where he stopped going for the killer aphorism for a bit and examined the actual costs and actual value of various things(railroads being the famous non-favorite); so it’s hardly as though logistical tallying was something he just didn’t do as a matter of course; it’s something he did do, sometimes what he was directly focused on, except when it came to a pretty substantial part of his own adventure; which he passed over in silence.
It’s all pretty low on the global list of grievous historical sins; but the “I’m going to tot up all the underacknowledge costs of the alleged convenience of rail travel; and completely ignore the domestic labor subsidies afforded to living deliberately” thing was both un-endearing and a trifle suggestive of the (not even remotely uncommon) tendency to treat labor with market value as real and nonmarket domestic labor as just background noise.
