MAKE MONEY TELLING NAIVE ELDERLY PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR, SRSLY.

[LMNO]

So:  There you go.

Three previous souces, cited repeatedly for the past few years, and yet none of them generated this kind of furor.

Quite the opposite, they mostly got heaps of praise, mittens, and shouts of "W1n".


What's going on here?

[hooplala]

This thread brings a tear to my glass eye.

[Doktor Howl]

Personally, I see this subject as no different than Robert Tilton's asshattery.

On one hand, I am kind of bothered by poor people being fleeced (you don't see many oil magnates going to a psychic).

On the other hand, as long as it is presented for what it is, the caveat emptor applies.

[Lies]

I'm sorry nigel, while I do *hear* and *understand* what you're saying here, I think you've still got me and what I'm trying to say all wrong.

Lys, save your breath, all she wants to see is the "take money from stupid people" line, and pick a fight over it. Everything else is going to get ignored.

Yeah, that's the general vibe I was getting from this.

[Cain]

On one hand, I am kind of bothered by poor people being fleeced (you don't see many oil magnates going to a psychic).

You might be surprised how many do consult psychics and astrologists though.  Naturally, they're not going to make up the majority of the market, but even so, quite a few are into all this New Age stuff and all that entails. Cornering that market could be amusing.

[Doktor Howl]

On one hand, I am kind of bothered by poor people being fleeced (you don't see many oil magnates going to a psychic).

You might be surprised how many do consult psychics and astrologists though.  Naturally, they're not going to make up the majority of the market, but even so, quite a few are into all this New Age stuff and all that entails. Cornering that market could be amusing.

Okay, I will go on record as saying this:  If the board members of AIG or G/S go to a psychic, etc, I am perfectly okay with the psychic extracting their last dimes from their arses with the infamous "pink glove".

[Cain]

Although in the case of AIG, its not so much "making money" as reclaiming it from its current stewards and returning it to its rightful owners.

[Captain Utopia]

How come no one ever starts epic battles when someone mentions classic subgenius lines like "They may be Pink, but their money's Green," I wonder?

It's exactly the same thing: Fleece the gullible.  Same with the Parable of the Golden Bull.

"Most peoples, they are not completely right in the head. Most peoples accept your information like a baby goat accepts your root. If you give them bullshit, though, the person will later find out about it, become angry, but then they will need to go look up the information themselves. They will need to use their own head gravy, instead of relying on other peoples to do their thinking for them . . . in this way bullshit is very very important. So spread bullshit everywhere, my fine friendly frotteur."

Enrico was about to leave when the man called out to him "But what if they never find out that the information is bullshit?"

Enrico turned back to the man. He shrugged. "Fuck em. If they are that stupid, they deserve to stay that way."

So why all the static, folks?

In practical terms - we need a way to make money for food and shelter, and I can't think of a single occupation which would look entirely ethical through a subjectively applied lens.  On a daily basis we take advantage of the resources available to us, unavailable to those less fortunate, in order to continue in our careers.  Often these resources are information itself which, if freely shared, would likely result in the customer walking away from the sale - do you tell them about the better deal available from your competitor, or do you smile and thank them for their custom?

Unless you are dealing with someone at least capable of being a competitor, then you are trading on the basis of their gullibility/inferior knowledge.

And that's fine, in the sense that I can't think of another way to survive.  But there isn't a hard and fast rule which you can apply to determine whether someone is taking advantage too much, like playing on the weaknesses of the elderly, or targeting the desperation of the poor.  One choice is to take something like the Parable of the Golden Bull, or a belief in the holy-power of the free-market, and say everything do-able is all righteous and ultimately fair.  The other choice is to say that there are grey areas, but that involves wading through a lot of static.

[hooplala]

I would like to make it clear that the parable of the Sacred Bull was written through the mind of Enrico Salazar, and does not necessarily reflect the views of Hoopla.  Some days it does, and other days... not so much.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

How come no one ever starts epic battles when someone mentions classic subgenius lines like "They may be Pink, but their money's Green," I wonder?

It's exactly the same thing: Fleece the gullible.  Same with the Parable of the Golden Bull.

"Most peoples, they are not completely right in the head. Most peoples accept your information like a baby goat accepts your root. If you give them bullshit, though, the person will later find out about it, become angry, but then they will need to go look up the information themselves. They will need to use their own head gravy, instead of relying on other peoples to do their thinking for them . . . in this way bullshit is very very important. So spread bullshit everywhere, my fine friendly frotteur."

Enrico was about to leave when the man called out to him "But what if they never find out that the information is bullshit?"

Enrico turned back to the man. He shrugged. "Fuck em. If they are that stupid, they deserve to stay that way."

So why all the static, folks?

A. My loathing of Subgenii is on par with my loathing of Venganza and philosophy majors, so I skip all such threads

B. Never heard of the Parable of the Golden Bull.

[Doktor Howl]

A. My loathing of Subgenii is on par with my loathing of philosophy majors,

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

A. My loathing of Subgenii is on par with my loathing of philosophy majors,

If it makes you feel any better, E.O.T. was a philosophy major.

[LMNO]

B. Never heard of the Parable of the Golden Bull.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm sorry nigel, while I do *hear* and *understand* what you're saying here, I think you've still got me and what I'm trying to say all wrong.

Lys, save your breath, all she wants to see is the "take money from stupid people" line, and pick a fight over it. Everything else is going to get ignored.

000, I understand your suspicion about where I'm coming from, but in this case I'm simply expressing my distaste for the contempt with which Lys appears to be viewing his clientele, which I am basing on his repeated descriptions of them.

[hooplala]

B. Never heard of the Parable of the Golden Bull.

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