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Betting On 7 Deadly Sins

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The infamous “greed is good” phrase of Gordon Gekko from the 1987 movie Wall Street has always caused moral outrage. Not because it’s wrong, but because it’s taken at face value. To make sense of greed (and financialization/speculation in the context of our article), one has to look at scale transformation property. It’s best illustrated by N. N. Taleb’s quote from Principia Politica: Politics is not scale-free. One can be "libertarian at the federal level, Republican at the state level, Democrat at the county level, socialist within the commune, and communist at the family and tribe level." Greed and desire to make it by the individual can scale into desirable properties on a societal level (capital investments, job creation, taxes, and creation of a welfare state). The opposite is true as well: the road to hell is paved with good intentions (see communism). We are led to the frontiers of invention by greedy, speculative, and self-interested individuals. Regardless of the endeavor – c

Betting On 7 Deadly Sins – Zee Prime Capital Skip to content January 8, 2024 Matti Betting On 7 Deadly Sins SocialFi: 100x-ing on pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth The infamous “greed is good” phrase of Gordon Gekko from the 1987 movie Wall Street has always caused moral outrage. Not because it’s wrong, but because it’s taken at face value. To make sense of greed (and financialization/speculation in the context of our article), one has to look at scale transformation property. It’s best illustrated by N. N. Taleb’s quote from Princip

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