Re: Dynamic Optimism

From: Max More (maxmore@primenet.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 1996 - 01:51:04 MST


At 11:55 PM 11/13/96 -0800, you wrote:
>
>BTW - Isn't dynamic optimism only a bone thrown to the starving dogs? It
>seems to be that the dynamically optimistic are often poor and the
>wealthy are never dynamically optimistic...

WHAT?!! Do you think Bill Gates or Warren Buffett is a stagnant pessimist?

The long-term poor (i.e. not the poor who are working hard at becoming rich)
are generally either passive optimists or pessimists.

Max

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