News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Man Who Made Too Much. Parent comment

Re:The Man Who Made Too Much by coliveira on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @02:43PM (#434138)
"At the cost of the happiness of others"

You cannot consider happiness as part of the equation. People were happy enough to sell financial instruments to Paulson at a profit. Now they are sad because they lost money in that transaction... Why all the complain? Everyone should just learn a lesson in investment from this situation.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Man Who Made Too Much by whacked_new on Thursday January 15, 2009 @10:36AM (#435225)
If the wealth gain was less sudden, i.e. if it was less conspicuous, people wouldn't complain as much. So the speed is definitely related to the happiness of others, because it's a relative, societal judgment. Furthermore, the one complaining here (the article) was, I believe, a bystander. It's more a reflection on income disparity than quality of life.

But I agree with you.

[ Parent | on HN ]