carlsbadworker wrote: But

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But why? Why good ideas are very hard to push through and the bad ideas are so contagious? What is in our nature that attracts bad ideas?

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Good idea and bad idea for whom? Many people became obscenely rich from the housing bubble and other ponzi-dynamic schemes.

This was written in 1841, it’s not like we don’t know what’s going to happen.

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one”