or how I learned to stop worrying and love confusion.
If I hit some longshot lottery then that is, no doubt, a win and nothing has been earned.
(barring a higher power's involvement, perhaps)
However, if I slog away at some handicapping and uncover some angle that permits me
to slay a few lines then I can arguably have earned such profits; this win could be deemed
to be more than just lucky and maybe the resources spent earning it (including time) are
responsible for this income.
Of course, there's the possibility that this interpretation could be wrong and whatever strategy
I employed to earn any such advantage might end up costing me over time.
Alas, this isn't a philosofishy examination of handicapping processes but a response to
the following weird sentence that I read about 1800 seconds ago, plus or minus:
A recent report by the International Forum on Globalization said the Koch brothers could win $100 billion in new profits if the Keystone pipeline is completed.
(I'd prefer to just italicize but this new site format is going to take more time to figure out
then I'd like to spend, presently)
If you're in business and you make a profit then don't you 'earn' it?
Why the use of the word 'win'?
There was some Orwell talk--in another thread--and maybe this investment of your time
(indulgence of mind) was caused by my once reading Orwell's Politics and the English Language,
or maybe some other nurture is to blame.
Responsibility seems to be as ambiguous as does interpretation.
I have too much time on my hands.
I miss baseball.
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If I hit some longshot lottery then that is, no doubt, a win and nothing has been earned.
(barring a higher power's involvement, perhaps)
However, if I slog away at some handicapping and uncover some angle that permits me
to slay a few lines then I can arguably have earned such profits; this win could be deemed
to be more than just lucky and maybe the resources spent earning it (including time) are
responsible for this income.
Of course, there's the possibility that this interpretation could be wrong and whatever strategy
I employed to earn any such advantage might end up costing me over time.
Alas, this isn't a philosofishy examination of handicapping processes but a response to
the following weird sentence that I read about 1800 seconds ago, plus or minus:
A recent report by the International Forum on Globalization said the Koch brothers could win $100 billion in new profits if the Keystone pipeline is completed.
(I'd prefer to just italicize but this new site format is going to take more time to figure out
then I'd like to spend, presently)
If you're in business and you make a profit then don't you 'earn' it?
Why the use of the word 'win'?
There was some Orwell talk--in another thread--and maybe this investment of your time
(indulgence of mind) was caused by my once reading Orwell's Politics and the English Language,
or maybe some other nurture is to blame.
Responsibility seems to be as ambiguous as does interpretation.
I have too much time on my hands.
I miss baseball.
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