Here’s a small glimpse of why I dislike what large concentrations of money does to humanity. Say you gave a 3rd gen failson sitting on 100 million with no ideas. So, he sounds on yachts, booze, prostitutes, whatever. You could argue that the “dumb money” gets smart 1 degree out
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Well, just like gravitational lensing is a side effect of GR which is not bendable by human will, financial lensing is also a side effect of what we’re programmed to do by evolution - chase status. It’s also not bendable by will. All one can hope for is to keep avoiding it.
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The most dramatic act of desecration I’m aware of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid …
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Wow. Hage not read a wiki like that in a longtime. Strangely proves
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Interesting thread but especially how a random book laying around affected your thinking for decades, that kind of thing fascinates me. I wonder what random reading affected others?
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