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> I bet you wish you hadn't spent those hundreds of bitcoin, don't you? I don’t know if you realize just how disturbing and manipulative this sounds.
by klodolph 5y ago
> I bet you wish you hadn't spent those hundreds of bitcoin, don't you?
I don’t know if you realize just how disturbing and manipulative this sounds.
- kragen 5y agoI definitely didn't think to read it as disturbing and manipulative. What do you think I'm trying to manipulate him to do? Not blow a literal fortune on smoking weed? It's too late for that, I think. He says he spent hundreds of Bitcoins buying weed; at today's prices, a hundred Bitcoins are US$3.8 million. If he'd smoked one third less weed and just kept the other third of the Bitcoins (in his own wallet, not MtGox's!) he'd be a multimillionaire. Who knows, maybe he's a multimillionaire anyway and that's why he doesn't regret it? In that case, I'd like to manipulate everybody: Save a reasonable percentage of your earnings! Invest a modest percentage of your current consumption in a diversified portfolio of assets with a reasonable expectation of future returns! Be aware that you may become disabled or encounter other serious economic difficulties, and a little frugality today may produce enormous payoffs down the road! Be prudent and don't bet heavily on any single asset class! I'll love you if you do! Your parents would be disappointed if you failed at this! What other manipulative stratagems can I use to get people to be wiser and more responsible?