{"id":12893,"date":"2008-12-17T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/17\/madoff-as-quasiaptronym\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:40:50","slug":"madoff-as-quasiaptronym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/17\/madoff-as-quasiaptronym\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Madoff&#8217; as Quasi-Aptronym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you live in a cave you will by now have heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/12\/15\/magazines\/fortune\/madoff.fortune\/\">Bernard Madoff<\/a> and his Ponzi-scheme.&#0160; Interesting name he bears, quasi-aptronymic: he <em>made off<\/em> with his investors&#39; money. The wealthy fools who lost everything have in part themselves to blame: they allowed their good sense to be suborned by greed and ill-placed trust.&#0160; Diversification is such a simple concept.&#0160; But it is not a matter of the intellectual grasp of a simple concept.&#0160; It is a moral matter. Appetites unruled will suborn the sharpest head.&#0160; Our financial and political and social decline is rooted in moral decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you live in a cave you will by now have heard of Bernard Madoff and his Ponzi-scheme.&#0160; Interesting name he bears, quasi-aptronymic: he made off with his investors&#39; money. The wealthy fools who lost everything have in part themselves to blame: they allowed their good sense to be suborned by greed and ill-placed trust.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/17\/madoff-as-quasiaptronym\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Madoff&#8217; as Quasi-Aptronym&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}