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A comment on Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers.

Re:Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers by marze on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @05:35PM (#3213188)
In a Ponzi scheme, you give money to the Ponzi operator, the operator does "complicated" things with it, those who withdraw early do well but at some point there is no money.

How is this different from the bailed-out banks, or an over leveraged banking system in general?

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Re:Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers by Ant11 on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @05:45PM (#3213229)
In a Ponzi scheme you have to actually participate to get burned.
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Re:Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers by fleitz on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @05:47PM (#3213243)
If you don't participate in the global economy you can't get burned by it. People who subsistence farm are largely immune to problems in the global economy.
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Re:Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers by salvadors on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @05:52AM (#3215050)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_rebellion_in_Albania
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Re:Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers by marze on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @07:13PM (#3213561)
Not if it was such a large Ponzi scheme that it impacted the global economy.
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