Gavin Andresen - 2012-08-22 03:21:57

From this very relevant article:
  "Megan McArdle on Arbitrage and Why We Love Being Conned"

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We are most vulnerable to Ponzi schemes and other confidence tricks when we start to believe that we can cheat the universe—that we can get something for nothing. The best con men succeed mostly because we are so desperate to believe them.