Madoff: Humanity’s Paramount

Psychologists wonder why people are endowed with the ability to learn the part of Hamlet or understand calculus when neither skill was of much use to mankind in the primitive conditions where his intellect was shaped. [...] The solution: we use our intellects not to solve practical problems but to outwit eachother. Deceiving people, detesting deceit, understanding people’s motives, manipulating people–these are what the intellect is used for.

Perhaps Bernard Madoff, as the glorious product of human evolution that he is, should be praised for having outwitted others to the tune of billions of dollars.

1 Comment to Madoff: Humanity’s Paramount

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   there was an article published in the March 09′ “Traders Magazine” that reported on Bernard Madoff Investment Securities and Bernard Madoff prior to the ponzi scheme news. The article goes into some depth about Bernard Madoff’s involvement with securities law and how he influenced capital markets regulation. I don’t have a link, sorry.
scott on April 1st, 2009

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