Rich people are disconnected from the shopfloor & wider conditions, their wealth creates knowledge problems. They also have far less experience hustling/calculating. They make like two or three market calculations a day, whereas poor people *constantly* evaluate tradeoffs.https://twitter.com/ThCollierPerles/status/1320854994816536577 …
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This is not to valorize poverty, being FORCED to constantly make market calculations about pennies is not a good thing. But poor people are generally smarter market actors than rich people. A hustler in the projects is generally a far sharper entrepreneur than a VC.
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Anyway, I have some economic stability these days, and it has made me a far less sharp economic actor since I'm not forced to constantly stress comparing marginal benefits and opportunity costs down to pennies. But it has allowed me to focus my mind on other projects.
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Different types of calculation. "Smart money", largely but not entirely synonymous with "big money", is about risk avoidance. So you avoid 99.9% of decisions. Managing poverty is about choosing the best option from a series of bad available options, or manipulating the action.
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This is sort of like saying poker nits are stupid because they don't go out on a limb chasing marginal advantages over the dummies at the table like the LAGs do.
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At a certain level of pressure/competition/risk, the way people play the game destroys the opportunities that exist closer to the ground. If you're at a table of entirely nits and tags, you'll never get to use all your fancy LAG tricks because nobody will call loose preflop.
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