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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:23:35 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32997 - #33001

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Charles : I appreciate your insight.  Wealthy people really are irrational
(just like everyone else).

Take the president of Gateway computer.  The mental flaw in his thinking is
this : he instinctively is planning as if he is going to live forever.
 Thus, spending years making even more money makes sense.  And, from an
evolutionary perspective, he is : he if makes more money, he can breed with
more women, and his genes really will live on forever.

Also, if he were really going to live forever, making more money so that he
can live in luxury longer also makes sense.  But in actuality, those years
he keeps struggling as president are years he will not get back, during
which he could have been lounging on the beach or whatever.  His decision
reduces the amount of pleasurable, luxurious things he will get to enjoy
before he dies, rather than increasing them.

From an individual perspective, our instincts are wrong.  What needs to be
done so that our memories and thought patterns live on is very different
from what our instincts tell us.

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