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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: BOOK REVIEW: Going Infinite
Date: 10/24/23 1:05 AM
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WTH,

This was a great book review. I wasn't going to read Going Infinite because I loathe smart people who confuse intelligence with wisdom--and all the people who go along with them for the ride, including the author. Now, i might add it to my list, however, your review goes a long ways toward assuring me I am correct in my assessment of SBF, et al, as well as Lewis.

Your review paints a fascinating pageant of hubris, instructive, also, in the many guises of greed. I don't mean to be hard on them all, for as a human, I know from experience that vast sums of money can be a blinding force.

Thanks for your critique of the author, as well. His blindness comes across even in his interviews.

You have a fine sense of reality and ethics, with the ability to express them. As Warren Buffett likes to say, there are three things one needs to be successful: Intelligence, energy and integrity. Without the last one, the first two will kill ya.

:)

Elizabeth

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