[FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

Steve Smith sasmyth at swcp.com
Thu Mar 18 12:06:58 EDT 2021


In the vernacular of Confidence (wo)men,  there is the short game and
the long game. 

And then there is the arc of one's career which is not necessarily a
piecewise linear composition of con after con after con.   Sure... with
a finite number of hours in a day, and days in a life the number of
Marks one can Con (or be Conned by) is technically finite. 

"The best Mark is another Con"

On 3/15/21 4:27 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Only a person who loves games can come up with a notion like Infinite Games.    Life is finite, so games are finite.  
> So long it is a game, players will defect.   And they should.
>
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> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ???
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 1:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is Wealth for?
>
> The recent episode of Computing Up had a good conversation about externalities:
>
> https://computingup.com/glum-about-technology-45th-conversation
>
> On 3/15/21 1:31 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> There was the N.Y. / Giuliani approach of actually putting homeless people on buses upstate or even sending them out of the country.    Like electronic waste barges headed for China.   Is that who we are?
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