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To: 10K a day who wrote (198113)	10/17/2002 9:28:24 AM
From: stan_hughes	Respond to of 436258

Hey pristy - Is that some sort of variation on the "do gamblers win or do winners gamble" conundrum?

To: 10K a day who wrote (198113)	10/17/2002 9:56:27 AM
From: orkrious	Respond to of 436258

one day it is all going to come out, and it's going to be very ugly

To: 10K a day who wrote (198113)	10/17/2002 11:26:55 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 436258

Dude, years ago a good friend of mine who is usually fairly reasonable attempted to talk me into an actual pyramid scheme. The way he got sucked in was thus. You go to these meetings where they pay off the early "investors" and as they pay them off they count out the money in cash out loud with everyone chanting along. The sight of all that cash being handed over is what sucks people into the game. Now they all are smart enough to understand the math and the exponential growth problem inherent in any pyramid game, but its that promise of free money that sucks them in. I said no to him. I told him my decision had nothing to do with fear of not getting the pay out, it had to do with the idea that for everyone who gets a pay out it means that hundreds of people lose everything they put in and I have a moral objection to something designed to do that. Needless to say my friend lost the whole 10k he put in and now I'm sworn to secrecy never to tell his fiscally conservative wife that he did something so completely stupid (she doesn't do web, so I'm safe talking about it here). The dumbass things people will do to make money never ends.