> Let me tell you about the godfather of mind blindness...
>
> Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant, was born in the late 19th century
> and was credited with developing the first pyramid scheme in the
> 1920's, which has appropriately been dubbed "The Ponzi Scheme" He
> would deliver the promise "Would you like to be rich? I can double
> your money every ninety days, guaranteed" and was successful with
> bilking people out of many millions of dollars For those that do not
> know what a pyramid or Ponzi scheme is, here is the definition from
> Investors World dot com:
>
> "An illegal investment scheme in which investors are promised
> impossibly high returns on their investments. These are scams in which
> money from later investors is used to pay earlier investors. The
> creators of the scheme get most of the profits while those who come
> later are left with nothing because there are eventually an
> insufficient number of new investors to pay the existing ones. These
> scams inevitably collapse because they require exponential growth in
> the number of participants at each step, which is impossible." ...

> Let me tell you about the godfather of mind blindness...
>
> Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant, was born in the late 19th century
> and was credited with developing the first pyramid scheme in the
> 1920's, which has appropriately been dubbed "The Ponzi Scheme" He
> would deliver the promise "Would you like to be rich? I can double
> your money every ninety days, guaranteed" and was successful with
> bilking people out of many millions of dollars For those that do not
> know what a pyramid or Ponzi scheme is, here is the definition from
> Investors World dot com:
>
> "An illegal investment scheme in which investors are promised
> impossibly high returns on their investments. These are scams in which
> money from later investors is used to pay earlier investors. The
> creators of the scheme get most of the profits while those who come
> later are left with nothing because there are eventually an
> insufficient number of new investors to pay the existing ones. These
> scams inevitably collapse because they require exponential growth in
> the number of participants at each step, which is impossible." ...

> Agnostic Freethinker