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Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie
If you offer a 52 Topps Mantle for 50 cents and I accept. ...that's where the story ends. I'm the hero and you are the villain. I'm the good guy and you are the bad guy, not the other way around. Are you serious with all this philosophy stuff? It's baseball cards. What do you want for your Bo Diaz Rook?
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you're allowed to do whatever you want! if you read my posts you'll see what i'm saying. what you said in your comment isn't what i'm saying at all -- i'm just giving you the logic that either makes markets function or fail on a mass scale. its simple! none of it takes away your free will. collective value is an imagination and we either decide to exploit it for personal gain when we perceive windows or openings to take advantage of other people or participate in it respectfully of others, regardless of whether or not they understand it.
now imagine that old woman is your neighbor and she finds out you took her for all she was worth, knowing full well what you were doing. there's the community impact of your decisions in real time!
and accordingly, that creates, fosters -- or erodes and destroys -- social trust. it has nothing to do with heroes and villains. it has to do with whether we wake up tomorrow and our market still exists!