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- From: 6sigma@halcyon.com (Six Sigma CASE (Brian L. Matthews))
- Subject: Re: Getting rich -- this is no joke!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.200037.12754@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <1i56riINNg3b@athena.sdsu.edu> <1993Jan3.001640.16834@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1993Jan3.061435.3402@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:00:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.061435.3402@netcom.com> erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith) writes:
- |In article <1993Jan3.001640.16834@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:
- |>U.S. social security is not a pyramid scheme; it's a Ponzi scheme
- |>(i.e., pay off the early investors with money received from later
- |>investors).
- |Social security is not quite the same thing as a Ponzi scheme. When
- |people discover the truth about a Ponzi scheme, they stop investing,
- |and it comes to a sudden end. People have already discovered the truth
- |about social security, but it shows no signs of ending.
-
- Of course the consequences of pulling out of your normal Ponzi scheme
- aren't quite the same as deciding not to pay social security any more.
-
- Brian
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