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RDPD seemed to me as parasitic - the "solutions" there work only if somebody gets into trouble, like foreclosures etc. Not a "wealth creation" book, rather a mi
by bitL 11y ago
RDPD seemed to me as parasitic - the "solutions" there work only if somebody gets into trouble, like foreclosures etc. Not a "wealth creation" book, rather a misfortune-of-others exploitation one.
- miseg 11y agoInteresting, I learned from it from a non-misfortune stance. E.g.: Work your job, but move towards income from a business. (Not that I've gotten very far yet ;) )
- breitling 11y agoI don't get it - you're not causing the foreclosure, so why feel guilty about it?
- bitL 11y agoMorality aside, it's not a book that would teach you how to found a new Google, rather how to exploit social structures in place assuming most people would keep their way of thinking/doing. Exaggerating, it's like when you identify how an ideal member of a religion would behave (because of archetype and social conformity pressure put on them), and then exploit what they aren't allowed to do. Imagine though if every single member of your nation followed RDPD strategy - when everybody is doing that, nobody wins.
- ansible 11y agoIn other words... it is not scalable. We all need to seize good opportunities we get, but we also need to focus on creating wealth. Something that can benefit society as a whole. The quintessential example of this is a guy like Dean Kamen, working on the Slingshot clean-water project. I hope he gets rich from that... because he'll have done it saving millions of lives per year.