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Eliezer on May 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: OK, You're Rich. Now What?

That... honestly sounds horribly pointless to me. As in, I read that and thought "Aaaaiieeee!" Am I the only one who feels that way?

jodrellblank on May 21, 2011 [–]

No, it's got to be humour - these are things real rich people do which sound awful, not things "holdenc" really cares for.

Eliezer on May 22, 2011 | [–]

Oh.

I think I got caught by a corollary of Poe's Law to the effect that without a smiley, there's no parody of terrible ways to spend money that somebody won't mistake for reality.

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