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Yes, I assumed it was a mistake and poster had meant to write "for", it doesn't make sense as "from"
by RobertKerans 6y ago
Yes, I assumed it was a mistake and poster had meant to write "for", it doesn't make sense as "from"
- dllthomas 6y agoIt absolutely makes sense as "from" - imagine I go to investors and say "I have this great scheme, and it will make a bunch of money", and they give me a bunch of money, and I pocket it. My company existed to "generate money from investors", for myself. It's also, obviously, fraud. You can make it less obvious by actually spending the money on a scheme that looks busy and looks like it has potential to generate returns. If I realistically believe that it has the potential to generate the returns I'm promising the investors, then I'm doing the usual thing of trying to generate money for investors. If I'm selling $2 bills for $1, I'll get a lot of customers and build a big business but all the actual value flowing into the system is the cash from the investors and I don't have any real prospect of turning that around. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between those.
- dllthomas 6y agoAh, but the original context seems to have been a attempted restatement of something you'd said, and "from" wouldn't fit. I agree it was likely a mistake, but I think much of the talking past each other in the comments following comes from others not realizing that you had made that determination and were responding as if it said "to". People attempting to make money from investors is a pretty common topic around here.