Ode to Fi+Se

[ashlesha]

pyramid game, ponzi scheme, its a way of conning people. It starts by recruiting people into an investment that will only yield money if they, in turn find new investors. Every investor gets money from everyone below him in the pyramid. It keeps yielding money as long as new investors are being found and falls utterly appart when people start to think. But by that time the top of the pyramid has picked up their stuff and skipped town.

It is an archetypical scam in the sense that a lot of the modern day investment scams are based on its general principle....

Some religious use it, Scientology for instances has a similar recruitment strategy and reaps benefits due to similar principles.

It's not an elegant scam but it's effective.

Edit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

oh i know, i'm just completely lost trying to figure out how on earth that could be attributed to gamma sf-ness.
not offended or anything but baffled/curious.

[Reficulris]

oh i know, i'm just completely lost trying to figure out how on earth that could be attributed to gamma sf-ness.
not offended or anything but baffled/curious.

haha lol, I read your question and asumed you wanted to know what a ponzi scheme was, but you meant, what the fuck is gamma SF ponzi-scheme-like.

The answer to your question is "no fucking idea what the guy is talking about, sorry I butted in"

[Esaman]

oh i know, i'm just completely lost trying to figure out how on earth that could be attributed to gamma sf-ness.
not offended or anything but baffled/curious.

Web of obligation. Owing back and forth. Owing you parents effectively on being born. Coerced transaction that has negative sum because of unworthwhily nature of it. Which can be simultaneously true and false because value is derived differently.

[FDG]

Web of obligation. Owing back and forth. Owing you parents effectively on being born. Coerced transaction that has negative sum because of unworthwhily nature of it. Which can be simultaneously true and false because value is derived differently.

You know, you can always tell people "no, I'm not going to come to the family reunion". Nothing will happen.

[blackburry]

Web of obligation. Owing back and forth. Owing you parents effectively on being born. Coerced transaction that has negative sum because of unworthwhily nature of it. Which can be simultaneously true and false because value is derived differently.

more false than true amirite.. (I don't feel like anyone owes me anything and I dislike feeling like I owe anyone anything... infact that sort of pressure irks me). so. whaaaaaaaat.

[woofwoofl]

Web of obligation. Owing back and forth. Owing you parents effectively on being born. Coerced transaction that has negative sum because of unworthwhily nature of it. Which can be simultaneously true and false because value is derived differently.

It feels far more constructive and beneficial to me to do great stuff for the people around you and to have a sort of expectation that it'll be returned; not as much about holding some type of moral knife against someone's throat, just a prediction that the good that's sent will be returned in a unique way, and confusion and disappointment when it somehow doesn't.

If you got people you can resonate with big time, then it's you and them against the whole world, and just about all the limits around what you could do just vanish away. I'm peaceful as hell, but that ain't always what's sent towards me from a bulk of the world that has little to no familiarity with me whatsoever, and it feels like a war with infinite fronts seen and unseen much of the time. When people come together, that's where the magic happens, and I'd start with the people who are closest to me in the ways I'd find important. Stretch the length of time large enough and it's strictly a matter of sequence, and if my body ends up dead before I get the job done on a universal scale, then fuck it.