Re: Professional vs Amateur

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 03/24/03 

From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 24 Mar 2003 00:10:06 GMT

daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) writes:
]>Well, duh! However, in a free-market culture, it's rare to find an
]>incompetent professional that has a lengthy track record because the market
]>squashes them fairly ruthlessly. On the other hand, the incompetent

Yup, that was why Enron never got off the ground.

]>amateur, having nothing to lose, and not being subject to market pressures,
]>may persist for a very long time.

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