{"id":8595,"date":"2017-03-13T14:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2017-03-13T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T21:32:12","slug":"only-the-rich-are-poisoned-the-preference-of-others-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/only-the-rich-are-poisoned-the-preference-of-others-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Only The Rich Are Poisoned: The Preference of Others | Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/incerto\/only-the-rich-are-poisoned-the-preference-of-others-c35ddf65cf68#.g7aqvzuaf\" target=\"_blank\">Only The Rich Are Poisoned: The Preference of\u00a0Others<\/a><br \/>\nThe salesman is the boss\u200a\u2014\u200aHow to drink poison\u200a\u2014\u200aAdvertising and manipulation<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"08f9\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Very few people understand their own choices, and end up being manipulated by those who want to sell them something. In that sense, impoverishment might be something desirable. Looking at Saudi Arabia which should progressively revert to the pre-oil level of poverty, I wonder if Vauvenargues would tell them that taking away some things from them \u2013and the swarm of fawning foreigners coming to skin them \u2013will make them better off.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fae8\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">To put it another way: if wealth is giving you fewer options instead of more (and more varied) options, you\u2019re doing it wrong\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only The Rich Are Poisoned: The Preference of\u00a0Others The salesman is the boss\u200a\u2014\u200aHow to drink poison\u200a\u2014\u200aAdvertising and manipulation Very few people understand their own choices, and end up being manipulated by those who want to sell them something. In that sense, impoverishment might be something desirable. Looking at Saudi Arabia which should progressively revert to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[1432,1032],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medium","tag-poor","tag-rich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}