94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by jessaustin on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:27PM (#20920866)

A rich person would read that quote and summarize it as "rich people are good". So really GP is just outing his or herself as not rich.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by Arnt on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:52PM (#20921099)

I'm an expat and read the quote as ~"rich people are foreign".

Having different values from "you and me" doesn't make people evil.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by stcredzero on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:12PM (#20921287)

Having different values from "you and me" doesn't make people evil.

For most of history, it (mostly erroneously) did. In 2019, this also applies. It's just applied much faster over global distances through the Internet.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by hnal943 on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:32PM (#20920921)

Rich people would consider being soft and cynical as virtuous? There's no way to read the quote in a positive manner.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by munk-a on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:03PM (#20921197)

Cynicism is definitely a virtue in a certain light. Trust is good for everyone while being bad for the individual, cynicism is good for the individual while hurting society.

Personally I think both extremes are terrible, but leaning on the side of cynicism seems safer.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by coldtea on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:51PM (#20921082)

Of course there is: soft => more refined and subtle, cynical => more wise to the world.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by mirimir on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:18PM (#20921350)

I read "soft" as more mellow and chilled out, and less stressed about (what seems) trivial stuff. In a way, even kinder. And from what I've read by rich people (such as Diane Disney Miller) cynical is a lot about the difficulty of establishing genuine relationships.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by eswat on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:07PM (#20921240)

That is how I read it as well. I’d imagine being someone that is cynical and wealthy protects your wealth from forces that would suck less cynical people dry (multilevel marketing, get-rich-from-real-estate seminars, stocks currently riding the wave of the hot rumour of the week).

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by compiler-guy on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:10PM (#20921269)

An important detail is that the quote is not "they are soft and cynical", but rather:

"soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful"

In other words, how they are different from others. Not that they are fundamentally soft, cynicalm or bad.

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by unkulunkulu on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:30PM (#20921518)

How does adding an opposite as “fast where we are slow” specify anything?

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Re:94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to u... by pdpi on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:39PM (#20921605)

It emphasises that the contrast is the thing of interest, rather than the properties themselves.

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