[ExI] new yellow flag

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 00:13:10 UTC 2022


Conspicuous altruism has now become the new yellow flag for investors, or
perhaps for those of us who are now living and observant, it becomes the
new orange flag.       -  that above and the 'lack of trust' I don't get
 bill w


On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 4:39 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *….*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> >…In Veblen's use, conspicuous consumption was applied to the nouveau
> riche and was a slam - showing off, which is definitely not altruistic.
> bill w
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> Ja.  But now, altruism has really become the best way to show off.
> Conspicuous altruism is for the nouveau righteous.  I know of this, for I
> am one of these nouveau righteous.  I was an evil bastard until… um… last
> week.  OK OK, a few minutes ago, but the important part is that I am a
> righteous bastard now.  At least in my own mind anyway.
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> Holmes and Bankman have taught us to immediately beware the minute we see
> anyone behaving in any conspicuously altruistic way.  Last week I was doing
> Scouting for Food to support the local food bank.  Lotsa people saw me,
> which means that now… nooooobody trusts me.  They are watching me: every
> move I make, every cake I bake, every snack I take, they’ll be watching my
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