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Ask YC: Do what you love and the money will follow...
Social capital is dependent upon the continuing goodwill of others. That is an important restriction. If Gandhi had dropped his ascetic lifestyle, deciding to obtain a mansion, his social capital would have declined dramatically.
anamax
on Jan 25, 2009
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Yes, but he'd still have had the mansion and the lifestyle. He'd have just lost the adoring crowds.
mattmaroon
on Jan 26, 2009
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People with mansions always have an adoring crowd.
babul
on Jan 26, 2009
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Saddam had a lot of mansions.
mattmaroon
on Jan 26, 2009
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He had an adoring crowd too. He just had a much larger opposite crowd.
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