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Battle of the Real billionaires?
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11/11/2019 23:03:04
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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11/11/2019 16:59:56
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Politics
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Elections
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
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Message ID:
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>>More interested in
>>-Telling the truth (at least once in a while)
>>-Not personally denigrating anyone who disagrees with him.
>>-Not trying to make money for his kids while in the White House.
>>-Not making me want to vomit when I see him.

Seems very subjective/emotive and/or input rather than output focused.

I'm reminded of the old story of the surgeon who charmed all his patients and told them they'd be back on their feet in 4 weeks.

When they were back on their feet in 2 weeks, they praised his surgical skills and magnificent manner to anybody who would listen.

Meanwhile his colleagues told their patients they'd be back on their feet in one week, and usually they were.

The moral of the story is that focusing on inputs can allow or even encourage substandard outputs, and that it's easier to exceed expectations if you set them real low then flatter and charm. It's also true that sometimes the best surgeons are overworked or slightly onto the spectrum and may not be as charming as Dr 4 Weeks. My own experience is of a daughter's orthodontist who must have been having a bad day on her 3rd visit as he was so shockingly impolite that I almost swept up my daughter and walked out on him- but his results are legendary, so I bit my tongue. I'll never see him again, but the daughter did well and that's what matters, surely.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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