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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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