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> To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

> - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by jakeydus4 hours ago|

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The people who would, shouldn't. The people who should, won't.

by flir1 hours ago|

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There's an old SF short where one of the people who won't gets forced to. Battery of psychological tests followed by "you're one of the rulers now, and you're going to hate every minute of it, but we enslave you so the rest of us have a peaceful, prosperous planet."

Wish I could remember the name/author.

by SanjayMehta33 minutes ago|

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Isaac Asimov had a story where one voter was selected by Multivac to pick the leader of the world.

by flir25 minutes ago|

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Thanks. Franchise. Not that one...

by SimianSci5 hours ago|

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- Own a monopoly - Inherit your fortune - Run a criminal enterprise

Using just these three filters alone, you encompass more than 99% of all billionaires in existence. The amount of billionaires who do not fit into these categories can barely occupy a family sized vehicle.

The criteria here suggesting that there is a specific sociopathic personality requirement to being a billionaire as each category can be argued as harmful to societies.

by nostrademons4 hours ago|

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I've been thinking that you can divide businesses on two axes,

                            Scalable - Many customers
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    Short-term/       Ponzi Scheme   |    Monopoly         Long-term/
    Transactional  --------------------------------------   Relational
                       Contracting / |   Consulting /
                       Retail etc    |   Therapy etc
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                        Non-scalable - Few customers

And mathematically, only businesses at the top of the graph are capable of generating a billion dollars. Hence, if you are looking to be a billionaire, the path lies either through a Ponzi scheme or through a monopoly. Both of them, in their most pure form, are illegal, and the challenge in the business model is to execute on them while staying just barely on the right side of the law.

by andai2 hours ago|

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Which one is Minecraft?