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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Money is attached to social value, not intrinsic value. Deal with it.  | It seems to be almost a religion in America that the market will infallibly guide money to those who provide value. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. "Money" is just an abstracted system of exchange tokens. It's subject both to gaming of the system and to unintentional leaks in the abstraction.
I'm glad that creating social value turned into lots of money for you but that doesn't make it a universally applicable rule.
You should perhaps not be so belittling, especially when it's you who is oversimplifying. Maybe some people aren't getting what they deserve.
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Last edited by Keith; 08-17-2008 at 02:25 PM.
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